rspec users - Sep 2011 - how to test identical behavior without being redundant?

I''ve got many models that have this declared:
  has_many :notifications, :as => :notifiable, :dependent => :destroy 
    

...  And so I have many model specs such as:

describe Reply do
  
  it "should eliminate any associated notification records when
destroyed" do
    reply = create_reply
    reply.notifications.should_not be_blank
    
    reply.destroy
    reply.notifications.reload.should be_blank
  end
  
end

describe Post do
  
  it "should eliminate any associated notification records when
destroyed" do
    post = create_post
    post.notifications.should_not be_blank
    
    post.destroy
    post.notifications.reload.should be_blank
  end
  
end

etc...

Is there an ideal way to dynamically generate this for any models that respond
to notificaions so that I don''t have redundant noisy tests?


Thanks.

Patrick J. Collins
http://collinatorstudios.com

https://www.relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-core/docs/example-groups/shared-examples


On Sep 26, 2011, at 2:11 PM, Patrick J. Collins wrote:
> I''ve got many models that have this declared:
>  has_many :notifications, :as => :notifiable, :dependent => :destroy 
> 
> 
> ...  And so I have many model specs such as:
> 
> describe Reply do
> 
>  it "should eliminate any associated notification records when
destroyed" do
>    reply = create_reply
>    reply.notifications.should_not be_blank
> 
>    reply.destroy
>    reply.notifications.reload.should be_blank
>  end
> 
> end
> 
> describe Post do
> 
>  it "should eliminate any associated notification records when
destroyed" do
>    post = create_post
>    post.notifications.should_not be_blank
> 
>    post.destroy
>    post.notifications.reload.should be_blank
>  end
> 
> end
> 
> etc...
> 
> Is there an ideal way to dynamically generate this for any models that
respond
> to notificaions so that I don''t have redundant noisy tests?
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Patrick J. Collins
> http://collinatorstudios.com
> 
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