[rspec-users] assigns and should eql don't work as expected

[Daniel Salmeron Amselem]

Today I've been writing some tests for a new rails 3 app, but after
reading the doc from http://rdoc.info/projects/rspec/rspec-expectations,
I still can't understand why the test doesn't work. My setup is:

rvm 0.1.41
ruby 1.9.2dev (2010-07-11 revision 28618) [x86_64-darwin10.4.0] ->
ruby 1.9.2-rc2
rspec 2.0.0.beta.17
rspec-rails 2.0.0.beta.17
devise 1.1.rc2

This is the test for the controller:


require 'spec_helper'

describe PeopleController do

  describe "routes" do
    it "should route to GET people#new" do
      {:get => "/people/new"}.should route_to(:controller =>
"people", :action => "new")
    end
  end

  describe "Methods" do

    before :each do
      @member = Factory(:member)
      sign_in @member
      @person = @member.build_person
    end

    it "should render form for a new person on GET people#new" do
      @member.should_receive(:build_person).and_return(@person)

      get :new

      assigns[:person].should eql(@person)
      response.should be_success
      response.should render_template("new")
    end
  end

end

And the controller:

class PeopleController < ApplicationController
  before_filter :authenticate_member!

  def new
    @person = current_member.build_person
  end

end

When running the test I get:


.F.................

1) PeopleController Methods should render form for a new person on GET
people#new
    Failure/Error: assigns[:person].should eql(@person)

    expected #<Person id: nil, first_name: nil, last_name: nil,
gender: nil, university: nil, year: nil, email: nil, phone: nil,
house: nil, user_account_id: 126, user_account_type: "Member",
home_town: nil, bio: nil, current_location: nil, high_school: nil,
undergrad: nil, profession: nil, concentration: nil, created_at: nil,
updated_at: nil>
         got #<Person id: nil, first_name: nil, last_name: nil,
gender: nil, university: nil, year: nil, email: nil, phone: nil,
house: nil, user_account_id: 126, user_account_type: "Member",
home_town: nil, bio: nil, current_location: nil, high_school: nil,
undergrad: nil, profession: nil, concentration: nil, created_at: nil,
updated_at: nil>

    (compared using eql?)
    # ./spec/controllers/people_controller_spec.rb:24:in `block (3
levels) in <top (required)>'


Finished in 2.29 seconds
19 examples, 1 failure

The error with the full backtrace here: http://gist.github.com/479362

Which doesn't seem to make sense. Any ideas?

Thanks.
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