Using shoulda to refactor rspec tests on Rails models

Question

After learning about shoulda-matchers by answering another StackOverflow question on attribute accessibility tests (and thinking they were pretty awesome), I decided to try refa

Answer 1

I think this whole thing should be seen from specification point of view.

If you have a component-testing-level specification which covers the necessary database columns for the given model, you should, otherwise not.

If not covered, but as a responsible developer you feel it important to have (your sw and its quality characteristics are better that way), you have to arrange to include this info in the spec, then you can put these tests in the test suite.