Rails - Jul 2005 - Testing failing

So I''m trying to be a good agile programmer and write unit tests for  
my objects, but I''ve got a test I just can''t keep from
failing.

I have a profile object that I just added username and  
hashed_password to. I used the method in the Rails book to handle  
hashing the password. My code is strait out of the book. The whole  
object is at the end of this email.

I want to test to make sure the hashed_password gets written out to  
the database, so I wrote this test

     def test_password_hash
         @hash_pass = "something"
         @profile_ron.password = @hash_pass
         assert @profile_ron.save
         @profile_ron.reload
         assert_equal Digest::SHA1.hexdigest( @hash_pass ),  
@profile_ron.hashed_password
     end

The problem is that @profile_ron.hashed_password never changes. I''ve  
put a bunch of logging and debugging code in and the problem actually  
seems to be in the before_create method. After the assign,  
self.hashed_password is nil. The hash_password method calculates the  
hash, but we get nil back.

Any ideas what I''m doing wrong?

I haven''t tried the log in method yet, I wanted the hash test to work  
first.


require "digest/sha1"

class Profile < ActiveRecord::Base
      
validates_presence_of :name, :email, :description, :addr_city, :addr_sta 
te, :addr_zip, :username
     attr_accessor :password

     #================================     # Hash the password before save
     #================================     def before_create
         self.hashed_password = hash_password( self.password )
     end

     #================================     # Display the pseudonym if there is
one
     #================================     def display_name
         if pseudonym and !pseudonym.empty?
             pseudonym
         else
             name
         end
     end

     #================================     # login
     #================================     def self.login(name, password)
         hashed_password = hash_password(password || "")
         find(:first,
                     :conditions => ["username = ? and  
hashed_password = ?", username, hashed_password])
     end

     def try_to_login
         Profile.login(self.username, self.password)
     end

     protected

     def hash_password( inPassword )
         Digest::SHA1.hexdigest(inPassword)
     end
end

Ron Davis
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