rspec users - May 2007 - unexpected failures with --reverse

I''m having trouble figuring out why one of my specs passes when run
without --reverse and then fails with --reverse. What am I missing?

I''m using the plugin versions of both rspec and rspec_on_rails 0.9.2.

Here is the offending spec (Bill is an ActiveRecord model in a Rails app):
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describe Bill, " when valid" do
  def valid_bill_attributes
    { :uuid => "ec5e943f-a819-433b-b786-ee847bb144e2",
      :date => Date.today,
      :amount => Money.new(15000) }
  end

  it "should have a uuid" do
    bill = Bill.create(valid_bill_attributes)
    bill.uuid = nil
    bill.should have(2).errors_on(:uuid)
  end

  it "should have a uuid that is no longer than 36 characters" do
    bill = Bill.create(valid_bill_attributes)
    bill.uuid = bill.uuid + "1"
    bill.should have(1).error_on(:uuid)
  end

  it "should have a uuid that is no shorter than 36 characters" do
    bill = Bill.create(valid_bill_attributes)
    bill.uuid = bill.uuid[0..34]
    bill.should have(1).error_on(:uuid)
  end

  it "should have a case-insensitive, unique uuid" do
    bill = Bill.create(valid_bill_attributes)
    another = Bill.new(valid_bill_attributes)
    another.should have(1).error_on(:uuid)
    another.uuid = valid_bill_attributes[:uuid].upcase
    another.should have(1).error_on(:uuid)
  end

  it "should have a date" do
    bill = Bill.new(valid_bill_attributes.except(:date))
    bill.should have(1).error_on(:date)
  end

  it "should have an amount_currency" do
    bill = Bill.new(valid_bill_attributes)
    bill.amount_currency = nil
    bill.should have(1).error_on(:amount_currency)
  end

  it "should have an amount_cents greater than 0" do
    bill = Bill.new(valid_bill_attributes)
    bill.amount_cents = 0
    bill.should have(1).error_on(:amount_cents)
    bill.amount_cents = -2
    bill.should have(1).error_on(:amount_cents)
  end
end

describe Bill do
  before(:each) do
    @bill = Bill.new
    @date = mock("date")
  end

  it "should return self.date.month when asked for :month" do
    month = mock("month")
    @bill.should_receive(:date).and_return(@date)
    @date.should_receive(:month).and_return(month)
    @bill.month.should == month
  end

  it "should return self.date.year when asked for :year" do
    year = mock("year")
    @bill.should_receive(:date).and_return(@date)
    @date.should_receive(:year).and_return(year)
    @bill.year.should == year
  end

  after(:each) do
    @bill = nil
    @date = nil
  end
end
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And here is the output when I run the spec using the stock 0.9.2
spec.opts via ''spec -O spec/spec.opts
spec/models/bill_spec.rb'' (it
also fails when I run it via ''rake spec:models''):
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FFFFFFFFF

1)
NameError in ''Bill should return self.date.year when asked for
:year''
undefined method `date'' for class `Bill''
./spec/models/bill_spec.rb:71:

2)
NameError in ''Bill should return self.date.month when asked for
:month''
undefined method `date'' for class `Bill''
./spec/models/bill_spec.rb:64:

3)
NameError in ''Bill when valid should have an amount_cents greater than
0''
undefined method `proxied_by_rspec__date'' for class `Bill''

4)
NameError in ''Bill when valid should have an amount_currency''
undefined method `proxied_by_rspec__date'' for class `Bill''

5)
NameError in ''Bill when valid should have a date''
undefined method `proxied_by_rspec__date'' for class `Bill''

6)
NameError in ''Bill when valid should have a case-insensitive, unique
uuid''
undefined method `proxied_by_rspec__date'' for class `Bill''

7)
NameError in ''Bill when valid should have a uuid that is no shorter
than 36 characters''
undefined method `proxied_by_rspec__date'' for class `Bill''

8)
NameError in ''Bill when valid should have a uuid that is no longer
than 36 characters''
undefined method `proxied_by_rspec__date'' for class `Bill''

9)
NameError in ''Bill when valid should have a uuid''
undefined method `proxied_by_rspec__date'' for class `Bill''
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Actually, nevermind. Figured it out. It seems that ActiveRecord is
lazy in creating readers for model attributes, waiting until the
attribute is accessed, so the mocking framework had no way to alias
:date because it didn''t exist as a method yet. Adding
''@bill.date'' to
the before block seems to have resolved the issue.