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my rspec test is giving me NameError: undefined local variable or method `confirmed_at' for #<User:0xca6ff98> My User spec is: require 'spec_helper' describe User do before(:each) do @user = Factory(:user) end # Factory will make sure that in the future if attributes are added the tests below don't break # Just as long as the Factory is updated for the new attributes as appropriate. context "email is null" do it "record is invalid " do @user.name = nil @user.should_not be_valid end end context "email is unique" do it "record is valid " do @user2 = Factory(:user) @user2 = @user.email @user2

Ruby 1.9.2 Rails 3.1 Here is the problem bundle exec rspec spec/ does not work, but rspec spec/ runs ok. When I run c:\RailsInstaller\work\apptwit>bundle exec rspec spec/ (this is the directory where my app is located, so the path to spec would not need to be specified) I receive c:/RailsInstaller/work/apptwit/spec/controllers/pages_controller_spec.rb:1:in `require': no such file to load -- spec_he lper (LoadError) from c:/RailsInstaller/work/apptwit/spec/controllers/pages_controller_spec.rb:1:in `<top (required)>' from C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rspec-core-2.7.1/lib

I have the following to remove the spaces on a specific attribute. #before_validation :strip_whitespace protected def strip_whitespace self.title = self.title.strip end And I want to test it. For now, I've tried: it "shouldn't create a new part with title beggining with space" do @part = Part.new(@attr.merge(:title => " Test")) @part.title.should.eql?("Test") end What am I missing? Validations won't run until the object is saved, or you invoke valid? manually. Your before_validation callback isn't being run in your current example because your validations are never checked. In your test I

In my spec_helper.rb file I have specifically set it to config.render_views but the response.body I get back is still empty. Here is my basic spec describe "#index" do it "should list all rooms" do get 'index' stub(Person).all end it "responds with 200 response code" do response.should be_ok end it "renders the index template" do pp response.body response.should render_template("people/index") end end Is there anything else that could have shorted this behavior? It's fine when I go through the browser. I am on Rspec 2.5.0 Have you tried having render_views in your controller spec file? That

I was using Mysql database before and decided to switch to Postgresql and now, when I run my tests using rspec, I getting a lot of warnings and notices. WARNING: there is already a transaction in progress NOTICE: there is no transaction in progress should has link "Suspender" WARNING: there is already a transaction in progress NOTICE: there is no transaction in progress should has css "title" with text "Suspensão de anúncio" WARNING: there is already a transaction in progress NOTICE: there is no transaction in progress should has css "h1" with text "Awesome job!" How can I suppress that? Is