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Shoulda, developed by thoughtbot, provides constructs for organizing Test::Unit tests and matchers for testing Ruby on Rails applications that work with Test::Unit or RSpec.

Shoulda organizes Test::Unit tests into a collection of nested contexts with support for setup and teardown blocks and should clauses. Shoulda also provides matchers for testing Ruby on Rails applications that work with Test::Unit, Minitest or RSpec.

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Get HTTP response Using Shoulda Ruby on Rails

I'm migrating over to shoulda from rspec and I can't seem to get access to the http response. Can someone point out what I may be doing wrong? context "doing somethin" do setup do get :index end @response.body …
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How to use shoulda-matchers with Minitest Specs style in Rails?

The shoulda-matchers documentation for Minitest usage provide an example for how to use them in the assertion style, like so: class PersonTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase should validate_presence_of(:name) end But how do I use them using the…
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Is it better to use shoulda-matchers or Factory Girl in unit testing Rails models?

I'm practicing testing (just got into it), and am wondering whether it's better to use shoulda-matchers or Factory Girl - or a combination of both - in testing models. For example, I currently just use the simple shoulda-matchers test, which is nice…
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Shoulda Matchers attempting to insert `nil` value while validating uniqueness

I have Referral model that tracks referrals (i.e. think when a user on a social media site generates a unique referral/invite link and invites others to join the app). Referrer - one who sends out their unique invite link Referree - one who…
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undefined method define_enum_for for RSpec::ExampleGroups

I am getting undefined define_enum_for method error after upgrading rails to 4.2.0 from 4.1. Is there any fix for this? Rails : 4.2.0 Ruby : ruby 2.1.5p273 (2014-11-13 revision 48405) [i686-linux] 1) Recording Failure/Error: should…
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Rails 4/ validations - numericality: { only_integer: true } necessary on 'integer' attribute?

I had this on my models: validates :deal_sector_id, presence: true, numericality: { only_integer: true } deal_sector_id is a integer postgresql column. I'm starting to doubt that numericality: { only_integer: true } is…
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Current trend in testing models in a rails3 + datamapper application

What is the current trend for testing models in a Rails3+DataMapper application. I want to use RSpec but sorely miss the concise testing provided by shoulda macros. Question - Is there a way of getting the best of both worlds, ie. a nice dsl for…
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validate_presence_of shoulda spec and default values

I have some code in a Rails model that does this: has_one :plan validates_presence_of :plan And used to do this: after_initialize :set_plan def set_plan self.plan ||= FreePlan.new end and now does: def plan super || (self.plan =…
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Allow blank on should validate_uniqueness_of

Using shoulda, any ideas how to allow blank when having this test: should validate_uniqueness_of(:email) Thanks.
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Shoulda route matcher with subdomains

I am using shoulda matchers to test critical routes on Rails 4.2.1 with Ruby 2.2.0 on a new application. I just moved my API namespace to a subdomain, and I can't figure out how to get the shoulda routes matcher (or any other concise routes test) to…
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Shoulda_matches error: undefined method `validate_presence_of' for #

I am learning TDD and trying to use shoulda_matchers to help with my testing but I get a very strange error. Here is my test: spec/models/idea_spec.rb require 'rails_helper' describe Idea do context 'Validations' do describe 'title' do …
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Shoulda-matchers throwing confusing errors

I'm having problems with what I think is the shoulda-matchers gem after updating it from v1.4.2 to v2.7.0, and the failures differ depending on how I run the tests. When I run the current test suite 'normally', I get failures like…
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Creating a shoulda matcher for links in view specs

I could be barking up the wrong tree here, but I'm trying to build a shoulda matcher for rails view specs. Right now I have a view spec that looks something like this: require 'rails_helper' RSpec.describe 'layouts/_navigation', :type => :view do …
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How to create contexts in shoulda macros

Asking this question again with smaller code sample: # this is a dummy shoulda macro that creates a context def self.macro_context context "macro" do yield end end # i am expecting this test to fail within the macro context …
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how to verify length and numericality of an atribute in rails with Rspec

I have a customer model with a first name, last name, and phone number. I want to let the user enter in the phone number in any format such as 555-555-5555 or (555)555-5555 or 555.555.5555 Here is my Customer model class Customer <…
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