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Jonathan R Mumm
Jonathan R Mumm

Reputation: 1

Unable to create user model in Rspec

When I run the following spec:

require 'spec_helper'

describe User do
  before :each do
    @user = User.new :email => "[email protected]", :password => "foobar", :password_confirmation => "foobar"
  end

  it "should be valid" do
    @user.should be_valid
  end
end

I get this error:

  1) User should be valid
     Failure/Error: @user = User.new :email => "[email protected]", :password => "foobar", :password_confirmation => "foobar"
     ActiveRecord::UnknownAttributeError:
       unknown attribute: email
     # ./spec/models/user_spec.rb:5:in `new'

However, when I go in to console and run 

user = User.new :email => "[email protected]", :password => "foobar", :password_confirmation => "foobar"
user.valid?

It returns true. For some reason, in my test, I am unable to create a User instance, saying that the email attribute is inaccessible.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 151

Answers (1)

David Chelimsky
David Chelimsky

Reputation: 9000

Console uses the development database, but specs use the test database. Make sure email is defined in both.

Upvotes: 3

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