RSpec using old attribute fields for a model?

Question

I made a mistake in the spelling of a model attribute name so I rolled back the changes and updated the model name to be the correct one. However, RSpec is still using the old model attribute name for some reason?

heres the spec:

....
  let(:message_client) { FactoryGirl.attributes_for(:contact_message, client_id: alice.id) }

  it "should redirect to the user edit page if a user is signed in" do
    sign_in alice
    post :create, contact_message: message_client
    expect(response).to redirect_to edit_user_registration_path
  end

Heres the FactoryGirl

FactoryGirl.define do
  factory :contact_message do
    contact_subject "Pay me"
    contact_body "I didn't recieve my latest payment"
  end
end

Heres the schema extract:

create_table "contact_messages", force: :cascade do |t|
    t.string   "contact_subject"
    t.text     "contact_body"
    t.integer  "freelancer_id"
    t.integer  "user_id"
    t.datetime "created_at"
    t.datetime "updated_at"
  end

And here's the error:

 Failure/Error: post :create, contact_message: message_client
 NameError:
   undefined local variable or method `contact_subject=' for #<ContactMessage:0x007fe9840b5e08>

And when I chuck a binding.pry in my controller create action and put in ContactMessage this is what is returned:

     3: def create
     4:   @message = current_freelancer.contact_messages.build(contact_message_params) if current_freelancer
 =>  5:   binding.pry
     6:   @message = current_user.contact_messages.build(contact_message_params) if current_user
     7: 
     8:   if @message.save
     9:     flash[:notice] = "Message Recieved"
    10:     redirect_to edit_freelancer_registration_path if current_freelancer
    11:     redirect_to edit_user_registration_path if current_user
    12:   else
    13:     redirect_to edit_freelancer_registration_path if current_freelancer
    14:     redirect_to edit_user_registration_path if current_user
    15:   end
    16: end

[1] pry(#<ContactMessagesController>)> ContactMessage
=> ContactMessage(id: integer, messge_subject: string, message_body: text, freelancer_id: integer, user_id: integer, created_at: datetime, updated_at: datetime)

If you look down the bottom there it is still using the old fields for the model (messge_subject). Any ideas why it is doing this? I've tried restarting my comp and terminal to no avail.

Answer 1

It is a common oversight that RSpec uses another database than your development server.

If you have to rollback a migration you will have to rollback that migration in your test environment too:

RAILS_ENV=test bundle exec rake db:rollback

Answer 2

To update your test database try

rake db:test:prepare