Unknown Method key? error in Rails 2.3.8 Unit testing

I was writing unit tests for my models for a while. After that I was
tweaking around and again continued writing unit tests.

Earlier all my unit tests were working - successfully. But now WHen I
run them, it gives me

Loaded suite unit/post_test
Started
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Finished in 0.112698 seconds.

  1. Error:
    test_presence_of_body(PostTest):
    NoMethodError: undefined method `key?’ for #String:0x103519a88

  2. Error:
    test_presence_of_body_and_title(PostTest):
    NoMethodError: undefined method `key?’ for #String:0x1034dd420

  3. Error:
    test_presence_of_title(PostTest):
    NoMethodError: undefined method `key?’ for #String:0x1034af750

  4. Error:
    test_title_minimum_width_3(PostTest):
    NoMethodError: undefined method `key?’ for #String:0x103481a80

And my test cases are

class PostTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase

def test_presence_of_title
post = Post.new(:body=>“Some content”)
assert !post.save,“Saved post without title”
end

def test_presence_of_body
post = Post.new(:title=>“Some title”)
assert !post.save,“saved post without body”
end

def test_presence_of_body_and_title
post = Post.new(:title=>“Some title”,:body=>"")
assert !post.save,“Saved Post without body”

post = Post.new(:title => "",:body=>"Some body")
assert !post.save,"Saved Post without title"

post = Post.new(:title =>"",:body=>"")
assert !post.save,"Saved Post with title and body"

end

def test_title_minimum_width_3
post1 = Post.new(:title=>“a”,:body=>“This will not be saved”)
assert !post1.save,“Saved post with title length less than 3”

post2 = Post.new(:title=>"abcd",:body=>"This will be saved")
assert post2.save,"Couldnot save a valid post record"

post3 = Post.new(:title=>"abc",:body=>"This will be saved")
assert post3.save,"Could not save a valid record"

end
end

Please help

Thanks