Last Updated: February 25, 2016

Testing your AR models made easy with accepts_values_for

I was looking for an easy way to test my models and I came across this gem
https://github.com/bogdan/accept_values_for

an example taken from here (http://www.christopherbloom.com/2011/07/12/testing-model-validations-in-rspec-the-short-and-sweet-way/)

it "should be required" do
  blank = Factory.build(:my_model, :name => "")
  blank.should_not be_valid
  blank.errors[:name].should include("can't be blank")

  blank.name = "Foo"
  blank.should be_valid
end

but this looks a lot cleaner and does the same

it { should accept_values_for(:name, "Foo") }
it { should_not accept_values_for(:name, nil) }

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skelz0r

So much cleaner, thanks for sharing!

over 1 year ago ·

hjblok

What about using shoulda matchers? They have a matcher which does essentially the same (validate an attribute can't be blank).

it { should validate_presence_of(:name) }

You could combine this with a Factory which has all default values and test if this Factory is valid:

FactoryGirl.define do
  factory :my_model do
    name "Foo"
  end
end

let(:my_model) { FactoryGirl.create(:my_model) }
it { my_model.should be_valid }

over 1 year ago ·