Re: [rspec-users] Testing attr_accessible (and/or attr_protected)

2010-11-02 Thread Iain E. Davis
> To me, checking whether the attribute changed is more straight-forward > than implementing a custom matcher, at least at my current level of > experience (novice) with rails and rspec. Okay, so that didn't last very long. Suddenly, I was swimming in very repetitive code in my _spec files...I cou

Re: [rspec-users] Testing attr_accessible (and/or attr_protected)

2010-11-02 Thread Iain E. Davis
I failed to mention I'm using Rails 2.3.8 and Rspec-1.3.x. I should have said that right away. On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 01:33, Alexey Ilyichev wrote: > An attempt to assign protected attributes leads to the warning in your log Hmm... Maybe I should actually look at the log once in a while... >    

[rspec-users] Testing attr_accessible (and/or attr_protected)

2010-11-01 Thread Iain E. Davis
I've been puzzling over how to test that attr_accessible has been set for the correct columns; but the tests I've come up with so far seem to fail to fail when I expect. I came across this old message from this list: http://www.mail-archive.com/rspec-users@rubyforge.org/msg01570.html Which seemed