I had posted this on the regular Rails list, but upon trying this in script/console, it seems like the behavior only exists when running rspec.
I'm getting some weird behavior in one of my models. I have a model defined something like this class User < ActiveRecord::Base attr_accessor :password validates_presence_of :password end If I validate the model without specifying a password, I get ["can't be blank", "can't be blank"] for :password instead of just one "cant't be blank". If I comment out the validates_presence_of statement, then no errors. So it doesn't seem like it's being defined elsewhere(through a plugin or some such). Any idea what might be going on here? Like mentioned above, if I do this in script/console I only get "can't be blank" once, as expected. I should note that I'm not blaming rspec, moreso, where should I be starting to look? My spec looks like this(snipped the other passing tests): describe User do include UserExampleHelperMethods before(:each) do @user = User.new @user.password = '123456' @user.password_confirmation = '123456' end it 'should be invalid without a password when creating' do @user.attributes = valid_user_attributes @user.password = nil @user.password_confirmation = nil @user.should_not be_valid @user.errors.on(:password).should == "can't be blank" end end _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users