rspec users - Mar 2008 - stuck on testing validation

Hello,

I must be doing something dumb, but here it goes...

why does this work?

  before(:each) do
    @work = Work.new
  end

  #for testing validates_presence_of :title
  it "should require a title" do
    @work.title = nil
    @work.should_not be_valid
  end

while this doesn''t:

  def valid_work_attributes
    {
      :title => "guernica",
      :description => "lorem ipsum lorem ipsum",
      :date => Date.today,
      :category => Category.new(:name => "belle epoque")
    }
  end

  before(:each) do
    @work = Work.new
  end

  it "should require a title" do
    @work.attributes = valid_work_attributes.except(:title)
    @work.should_not be_valid
  end

the latter example fails with "expected valid? to return false, got
true" for

	@work.should_not be_valid

doesn''t make sense to me, and I''ve been stuck for a while
already :P

any help greatly appreciated, please bear with the newbie :)
Oliver

Here is a very good example by Luke, which I think you should follow -

http://www.lukeredpath.co.uk/2006/8/29/developing-a-rails-model-using-bdd-and-rspec-part-1

fyi,
Namrata
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Hi Namrata,

thanks, that''s a great resource and I ended up beefing my tests based
on the recommendations there.

actually though, the problem I was having was that validations weren''t
being recognized by the test suite. later I found out that when
regenerating the scaffold for the app a while back, the database.yml
used the sqlite adapter instead of mysql (I''d forgotten about this) -
once I switched back to mysql, where the database was prepared, the
flunking tests starting passing. :P

- Oliver

2008/3/4, Namrata Tiwari <lists at
ruby-forum.com>:
> Here is a very good example by Luke, which I think you should follow -
>
> 
http://www.lukeredpath.co.uk/2006/8/29/developing-a-rails-model-using-bdd-and-rspec-part-1
>
>  fyi,
>  Namrata
>
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