I am reletively a newbie to Rails. I utilized Restful Authentication plugin from techno-weenie for a new application I am developing. (http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/ restful_authentication/) I wanted my application to be test driven (TTD). All went smoothly until I added a validates_presence_of validation to a new model attribute (address) I introduced to the User model and then try to run the test. The test failed claming the new attribute I supplied was nil. Here what I did: 1) Added a new field (address) to the users table using a migration. 2) Included a validates_presence_of :address to the User model. 3) changed the user_test accordingly. def create_user(options = {}) User.create({:login => ''quire'', :email => ''quire-hcDgGtZH8xNBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org'', :password => ''quire'', :password_confirmation => ''quire'', :address => ''myaddress'' }.merge(options)) end 4) run the unit test by rake test:units The test failed and it seems the value for the address field didn''t get saved in the test database. I tried recreating the test database with rake db:test:clone, rake db:test:clone_structure but failed again. I use SQLite3 as the database. Please help me to overcome this issue. Thank you. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---