State Machine, Model Validations and RSpec

Question

Here\'s my current class definition and spec:

class Event < ActiveRecord::Base

  # ...

  state_machine :initial => :not_started do

    event :game_s         


        

Answer 1

It looks like you're running into a caveat noted in the documentation:

One important caveat here is that, due to a constraint in ActiveModel's validation framework, custom validators will not work as expected when defined to run in multiple states. For example:

 class Vehicle
   include ActiveModel::Validations

   state_machine do
     ...
     state :first_gear, :second_gear do
       validate :speed_is_legal
     end
   end
 end

In this case, the :speed_is_legal validation will only get run for the :second_gear state. To avoid this, you can define your custom validation like so:

 class Vehicle
   include ActiveModel::Validations

   state_machine do
     ...
     state :first_gear, :second_gear do
       validate {|vehicle| vehicle.speed_is_legal}
     end
   end
 end