Hello,
As I’m becoming more and more familiar with mocking/stubbing, I’m going
back
to some of my model specs and revaluating how I wrote them.
I have certain models in which validation requires the presence of an
associated model, which itself needs to be valid(validates_presence_of
and
validates_associated).
When I wrote the specs, I wrote helpers for the attributes instead of
fixtures, like so:
module UserSpecHelper
def valid_user_attributes
{
:email => “[email protected]”,
:password => “tttttt”,
:password_confirmation => “tttttt”
}
end
end
If the model had a required associated model, I’d also add some valid
attribute helpers to make the associated model pass as well:
module UserSpecHelper
def valid_user_attributes
{
:email => “[email protected]”,
:password => “tttttt”,
:password_confirmation => “tttttt”
}
end
def valid_shipping_address_attributes
{
:street => “blah street”,
:city => “blah”,
:state => “CA”,
:zip => “54455”
}
end
end
Now, I’ve been thinking, I should probably just stub out the associated
models in order to focus my specs on one model, the model being tested.
Would that be better practice?
Thanks,
Matt L.