Should native validations be tested in rails?

Question

Everybody knows that automated testing is a good thing.

Not everybody knows exacly what to test.

My question is if native validations like validate_presence_of,

Answer 1

This is where tools like Shoulda really come in handy. I think its totally up to you to test how you write the code with the tools people provide you. Just because you are using has_many, does not mean you are using it right!

Seriously, if you integrate Shoulda into the mix, it becomes trivial to test these sorts of things. if you run rcov, its going to tell you all the code you wrote is not fully tested, unless you do.