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dewyze
dewyze

Reputation: 979

Attribute not accessible via Rspec

Models:

class User < ActiveRecord:Base
    has_many :roles
    has_many :networks, :through => :roles
end

class Network < ActiveRecord:Base
    has_many :roles
    has_many :network, :through => :roles
end

class Role < ActiveRecord:Base
    attr_accesible :user_id, :network_id, :position

    belongs_to :user
    belongs_to :network
end

The default for role is "member"

In the console I can type:

> @role = Role.find(1)
> @role.position
=> "member"

But in my Rspec tests, I use FactoryGirl to create a user, network, and role. And I have the test @role.should respond_to(:position) I have also tried just assigning it @role.position = "admin". And no matter what, I get an error like:

Failure/Error: @role.should respond_to(:position)
  expected [#<Role id:1, user_id: 1, position: "member", created_at...updated_at...>] to respond to :position

Am I missing something very basic?

EDIT:

factories.rb

FactoryGirl.define do
  factory :user do
    name               "Example User"
    sequence(:email)   {|n| "email#{n}@program.com"}
  end

  factory :network do
    sequence(:name)      {|n| "Example Network #{n}"}
    location              "Anywhere, USA"
    description           "Lorem Ipsum"
  end

  factory :role do
    association :user
    association :network
    position              "member"
  end

end

network_controller_spec

...
before(:each) do
  @user = test_sign_in(FactoryGirl.create(:user)
  @network = FactoryGirl.create(:network)
  @role = FactoryGirl.create(:role, :user_id => @user.id, :network_id = @network.id)
  #I have also tried without using (_id) I have tried not setting the position in the factories as well.
end

it "should respond to position" do
  get :show, :id => @network
  # This may not be the best or even correct way to find this. But there should only be one, and this method works in the console.
  @role = Role.where(:user_id => @user.id, :network_id => @network.id)
  @role.should respond_to(:position)
end

Upvotes: 0

Views: 407

Answers (1)

John Plummer
John Plummer

Reputation: 1044

Jesse is correct in his comment, hopefully he will come back and write it as an answer, in the meantime, the code should be:

@role = Role.where(:user_id => @user.id, :network_id => @network.id).first

or

@role = Role.find_by_user_id_and_network_id(@user.id, @network.id)

As an aside, it seems a little odd to be testing the role class in the network controller spec (unless this is just an exploratory test to work out why things aren't working as expected).

Upvotes: 1

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