rspec users - Jan 2009 - Missing model attribute in cucumber test

Rails 2.2.2
Cucumber 0.1.15
SQLite3

I have this migration for the User model:

class CreateUsers < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def self.up
    create_table :users do |t|
...
      t.string    :sms_address
      t.boolean   :user_administrator,    :default => false,
                                          :null => false
      t.string    :username,              :null => false
...

I see this in the DB schema:

CREATE TABLE "users" (
  "id" INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT NOT NULL,
...
  "sms_address" varchar(255),
  "user_administrator" boolean DEFAULT ''f'' NOT NULL,
  "username" varchar(255) NOT NULL,
...

And in the console I see this:
>> myuser=User.new
=> #<User id: nil, crypted_password: nil, current_login_at: nil,
current_login_ip: nil, email: nil, last_login_at: nil, last_login_ip:
nil, last_request_at: nil, login_count: nil, name_last: nil, name_first:
nil, name_middle: nil, openid_identifier: nil, password_salt: nil,
perishable_token: nil, persistence_token: nil, single_access_token: nil,
sms_address: nil, user_administrator: false, username: nil, created_at:
nil, updated_at: nil>
?>
>> y myuser.attributes.sort
---
...
  -
- - sms_address
  -
- - updated_at
  -
- - user_administrator
  - false
- - username
  -
=> nil

So, as far as I can see user_administrator is an attribute of users.

However, when I have this step defintion:

When /user named "(.*)" is an administrator/ do |name|
  my_user = User.find_by_username!(name)
  my_user.user_administrator
end

Then I see this error:

    And the user named "newuser" is an administrator     #
features/app/models/users/step_definitions/user_steps.rb:24
      undefined method `user_administrator'' for
#<User:0x2ac26fa83e80>
(NoMethodError)
     
/usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/active_record/attribute_methods.rb:260:in
`method_missing''
      ./features/app/models/users/step_definitions/user_steps.rb:26:in
`And /user named "(.*)" is an administrator/''
      features/app/models/users/user.feature:29:in `And the user named
"newuser" is an administrator''


Have I misspelled something somewhere and just cannot see it?  what is
causing this?
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James Byrne wrote:
> Then I see this error:
> 
>     And the user named "newuser" is an administrator     #
> features/app/models/users/step_definitions/user_steps.rb:24
>       undefined method `user_administrator'' for
#<User:0x2ac26fa83e80>
> (NoMethodError)
>      
/usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/active_record/attribute_methods.rb:260:in
> `method_missing''
>       ./features/app/models/users/step_definitions/user_steps.rb:26:in
> `And /user named "(.*)" is an administrator/''
>       features/app/models/users/user.feature:29:in `And the user named
> "newuser" is an administrator''
> 
> 
> Have I misspelled something somewhere and just cannot see it?  what is
> causing this?
I have changed the type to string and get the same error.  I have 
changed the attribute name to useradministrator and still get the same 
error.
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James Byrne wrote:

I have gotten past this somehow.  The only thing that I think may have 
influenced this is manually preparing the test database.  However, now I 
have a different problem.

Here is the same step definition:

When /user named "(.*)" is an administrator/ do |name|
  my_user = User.find_by_username!(name)
  puts my_user.administrator.to_s
  my_user.administrator
end

This produces this output in a cucumber run:

false
    And the user named "newuser" is an administrator     # 
features/app/models/users/step_definitions/user_steps.rb:24

Notice the value reported from the puts statement.  Yet, this feature 
step passes.   What am I doing wrong?
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On 14 Jan 2009, at 18:46, James Byrne wrote:
> Then I see this error:
>
>    And the user named "newuser" is an administrator     #
> features/app/models/users/step_definitions/user_steps.rb:24
>      undefined method `user_administrator'' for
#<User:0x2ac26fa83e80>
> (NoMethodError)
>      /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/ 
> active_record/attribute_methods.rb:260:in
> `method_missing''
>      ./features/app/models/users/step_definitions/user_steps.rb:26:in
> `And /user named "(.*)" is an administrator/''
>      features/app/models/users/user.feature:29:in `And the user named
> "newuser" is an administrator''

Try rake db:test:prepare maybe?

Matt Wynne
http://blog.mattwynne.net
http://www.songkick.com

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:46 PM, James Byrne <lists at ruby-forum.com>
wrote:
> Rails 2.2.2
> Cucumber 0.1.15
> SQLite3
>
> I have this migration for the User model:
>
> class CreateUsers < ActiveRecord::Migration
>  def self.up
>    create_table :users do |t|
> ...
>      t.string    :sms_address
>      t.boolean   :user_administrator,    :default => false,
>                                          :null => false
>      t.string    :username,              :null => false
> ...
>
> I see this in the DB schema:
>
> CREATE TABLE "users" (
>  "id" INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT NOT NULL,
> ...
>  "sms_address" varchar(255),
>  "user_administrator" boolean DEFAULT ''f'' NOT
NULL,
>  "username" varchar(255) NOT NULL,
> ...
>
> And in the console I see this:
>
> >> myuser=User.new
> => #<User id: nil, crypted_password: nil, current_login_at: nil,
> current_login_ip: nil, email: nil, last_login_at: nil, last_login_ip:
> nil, last_request_at: nil, login_count: nil, name_last: nil, name_first:
> nil, name_middle: nil, openid_identifier: nil, password_salt: nil,
> perishable_token: nil, persistence_token: nil, single_access_token: nil,
> sms_address: nil, user_administrator: false, username: nil, created_at:
> nil, updated_at: nil>
> ?>
> >> y myuser.attributes.sort
> ---
> ...
>  -
> - - sms_address
>  -
> - - updated_at
>  -
> - - user_administrator
>  - false
> - - username
>  -
> => nil
>
> So, as far as I can see user_administrator is an attribute of users.
>
> However, when I have this step defintion:
>
> When /user named "(.*)" is an administrator/ do |name|
>  my_user = User.find_by_username!(name)
>  my_user.user_administrator
> end
>
> Then I see this error:
>
>    And the user named "newuser" is an administrator     #
> features/app/models/users/step_definitions/user_steps.rb:24
>      undefined method `user_administrator'' for
#<User:0x2ac26fa83e80>
> (NoMethodError)
>
> 
/usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/active_record/attribute_methods.rb:260:in
> `method_missing''
>      ./features/app/models/users/step_definitions/user_steps.rb:26:in
> `And /user named "(.*)" is an administrator/''
>      features/app/models/users/user.feature:29:in `And the user named
> "newuser" is an administrator''
>
>
> Have I misspelled something somewhere and just cannot see it?  what is
> causing this?

Did you migrate your test db? rake features does that for you, but plain
cucumber doesn''t

Aslak

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On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:56 PM, James Byrne <lists at ruby-forum.com>
wrote:
> James Byrne wrote:
>
> > Then I see this error:
> >
> >     And the user named "newuser" is an administrator     #
> > features/app/models/users/step_definitions/user_steps.rb:24
> >       undefined method `user_administrator'' for
#<User:0x2ac26fa83e80>
> > (NoMethodError)
> >
>
/usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/active_record/attribute_methods.rb:260:in
> > `method_missing''
> >       ./features/app/models/users/step_definitions/user_steps.rb:26:in
> > `And /user named "(.*)" is an administrator/''
> >       features/app/models/users/user.feature:29:in `And the user named
> > "newuser" is an administrator''
> >
> >
> > Have I misspelled something somewhere and just cannot see it?  what is
> > causing this?
>
> I have changed the type to string and get the same error.  I have
> changed the attribute name to useradministrator and still get the same
> error.

Some things you can try

* Open a raw database session against the test db and look at tables and
columns
* script/runner "p User.column_names" -e test
* script/runner "p User.column_names" -e development

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James Byrne escribi?:
> James Byrne wrote:
>
> I have gotten past this somehow.  The only thing that I think may have 
> influenced this is manually preparing the test database.  However, now I 
> have a different problem.
>
> Here is the same step definition:
>
> When /user named "(.*)" is an administrator/ do |name|
>   my_user = User.find_by_username!(name)
>   puts my_user.administrator.to_s
>   my_user.administrator
> end
>   
I think the last statement of the step definition "should be":

  my_user.administrator.should be_true

for an rspec based implementation, or

  fail unless my_user.administrator

 for a pure cucumber one.
> This produces this output in a cucumber run:
>
> false
>     And the user named "newuser" is an administrator     # 
> features/app/models/users/step_definitions/user_steps.rb:24
>
> Notice the value reported from the puts statement.  Yet, this feature 
> step passes.   What am I doing wrong?
>   
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> James Byrne wrote:
>
> I have gotten past this somehow.  The only thing that I think may have
> influenced this is manually preparing the test database.  However,  
> now I
> have a different problem.
>
> Here is the same step definition:
>
> When /user named "(.*)" is an administrator/ do |name|
>  my_user = User.find_by_username!(name)
>  puts my_user.administrator.to_s
>  my_user.administrator
> end
>
> This produces this output in a cucumber run:
>
> false
>    And the user named "newuser" is an administrator     #
> features/app/models/users/step_definitions/user_steps.rb:24
>
> Notice the value reported from the puts statement.  Yet, this feature
> step passes.   What am I doing wrong?
Where did you expect it to fail? This will fail:

my_user.should be_administrator

False return values never fails unless you use #should like above.

Aslak
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