Rails - Apr 2006 - Trying to come up with a nice DSL, but having some problems

I have three models in this small game I''m working on - the Game,
Players, and Turns.  A Player should be able to rescue another Player
on any given turn.  So it looks like this:

class Game
  has_many :players
  has_many :turns

  def rescue_player(p)
    t = turns.last
    t.rescued = p
    t.save
  end
end

class Turn
  belongs_to :rescued, :foreign_key => ''rescued_id'',
:class_name => ''Player''
end

class Player
  belongs_to :game

 def rescue_player(p)
    game.rescue_player p
  end
end


So what I want to do is be able to create a game object and do
something like this:

g = create_game # factory method in test_helper that just creates a
new random game
g.players.first.rescue_player g.players.last
assert_equal g.players.last, g.turns.last.rescued

Now if I just do that, the data gets saved in the database, but the
assert fails.  This is because g != g.players.last.game.  I can do a
g.reload right before the assert and then it works fine.  I''m just not
quite sure what I need to do, because I think it''s pretty lame to have
to reload every time I do something like this.  Also when I''m actually
using the code I won''t remember to call reload, as it''s just
not
really a natural thing to do.  Can anyone give me some advice on how
to create the DSL I want, without resorting to adding ugliness like
random reload calls?

Pat