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...(:something) } That''s a little more Rails-developer-friendly than customer-friendly, but it still ''speaks'' better than ''have_present'' for me. FYI - Jay Fields has a Validatable framework that includes some test/unit assertions that look like this: Foo.must_validate do presence_of :name format_of(:name).with(/^[A-Z]/) numericality_of(:age).only_integer(true) end Because Spec::Rails behaviours inherit from Test::Unit::TestCase, you can install the validations gem (gem install validatable) and use these as/is with RSpec. Or, if you want it to feel mor...