Forgive a very nooooob question. I am trying to get my head around all of this. Have a couple of simple models (weird spelling of tipe was in case type was a reserved word ...). They were all generated with the rspec_scaffold generator
class Category < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :tipes validates_uniqueness_of :name validates_presence_of :name end class Tipe < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :category validates_uniqueness_of :name validates_presence_of :name end I have a line in my tipes/index.html.erb <%=h tipe.category.name %> All works just fine in the development environment, but when I run autospec, it fails with the the following error: "ActionView::TemplateError in '/tipes/index.html.erb renders a list of tipes' undefined method `name' for nil:NilClass" The tipes/index.html.erb_spec.rb is the standard rspec_scaffold generated one : require 'spec_helper' describe "/tipes/index.html.erb" do include TipesHelper before(:each) do assigns[:tipes] = [ stub_model(Tipe, :name => "value for name", :live => false, :category_id => 1 ), stub_model(Tipe, :name => "value for name", :live => false, :category_id => 1 ) ] end it "renders a list of tipes" do render response.should have_tag("tr>td", "value for name".to_s, 2) response.should have_tag("tr>td", false.to_s, 2) response.should have_tag("tr>td", 1.to_s, 2) end end Clearly there is some problem with the association - it isn't understanding it. So my dumb nooob question is ... what do I do to get this to work? If I leave the line in the index.html.erb as <%=h tipe.category_id %> it is all sweetness and light. If I change it ot <%=h tipe.category.name %> the world is a dark, cold place... (PS - I don't really understand the assigns[:tipe] thing either ...) (this is the error trace app/views/tipes/index.html.erb:14 app/views/tipes/index.html.erb:10:in `each' app/views/tipes/index.html.erb:10 vendor/gems/rspec-rails-1.3.2/lib/spec/rails/extensions/action_view/base.rb:27:in `render' vendor/gems/rspec-rails-1.3.2/lib/spec/rails/example/view_example_group.rb:170:in `__send__' vendor/gems/rspec-rails-1.3.2/lib/spec/rails/example/view_example_group.rb:170:in `render' spec/views/tipes/index.html.erb_spec.rb:30 rspec (1.3.0) lib/spec/example/example_methods.rb:40:in `instance_eval' rspec (1.3.0) lib/spec/example/example_methods.rb:40:in `execute' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:53:in `timeout' rspec (1.3.0) lib/spec/example/example_methods.rb:37:in `execute' rspec (1.3.0) lib/spec/example/example_group_methods.rb:214:in `run_examples' rspec (1.3.0) lib/spec/example/example_group_methods.rb:212:in `each' rspec (1.3.0) lib/spec/example/example_group_methods.rb:212:in `run_examples' rspec (1.3.0) lib/spec/example/example_group_methods.rb:103:in `run' rspec (1.3.0) lib/spec/runner/example_group_runner.rb:23:in `run' rspec (1.3.0) lib/spec/runner/example_group_runner.rb:22:in `each' rspec (1.3.0) lib/spec/runner/example_group_runner.rb:22:in `run' rspec (1.3.0) lib/spec/runner/options.rb:152:in `run_examples' rspec (1.3.0) lib/spec/runner/command_line.rb:9:in `run' rspec (1.3.0) bin/spec:5 ) Any help v much appreciated ... Ben _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users