And just to argue with myself a little - the spec output is a pretty nice of how a model works. Perhaps I'm thinking that something for the description should be specced so that it appears in the spec output..
Looking forward to taking this newb hat off sometime soon - I'm definitely spending way too much time on google at the moment. Tim.. On 01/04/2008, Tim Haines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey Matt, > > Cheers for that. Yeah - I'm not speccing methods like save, valid?, > errors etc.. I am writing "belongs_to" though, so figure that should be > specced somehow. I guess when I'm adding a "description" field to > something, I might be writing a migration for it, but no other model code. > I guess if there's no model code for it, then it kinda makes sense that it > doesn't need to be in the model spec. > > Tim.. > > On 01/04/2008, Matt Berther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi Tim, > > I'm just a newb too, but as I understand it, you should only spec code > > you write. In the case of attributes on models, it's ActiveRecord code. You > > shouldnt need to test that. I have not been doing this. > > > > That said, I'd love to get the word from some people that have been > > doing it for a while. > > > > -- > > Matt Berther > > http://www.mattberther.com > > > > > > > > > > On Mar 31, 2008, at 6:21 PM, Tim Haines wrote: > > > > Hi there, > > > > A couple of complete newb questions here. > > > > Should I be spec'ing the existence of attributes on models? While > > reading through the docs and googling I haven't seen any example that checks > > if attributes exist on a model. i.e. Game.Description. > > > > Likewise, what I've seen on spec'ing associations seems light. What > > spec should I be writing before I add a belongs_to :genre to my game model? > > The closest I've seen is probably this -> > > http://blog.imperialdune.com/2007/2/27/rspec-ing-model-associations > > > > Cheers, > > > > Tim. > > _______________________________________________ > > rspec-users mailing list > > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > rspec-users mailing list > > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > > > >
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