On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Pat Maddox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I wonder why OP doesn't create two records, call #most_recent, and > verify that the record returned is the one with the larger timestamp.
I'm sorry about the confusion here. Your idea sounds indeed better (I'll explain below). > > If the code is "not yours" (and I think you ought to clarify what you > mean by that), then you should be testing it at a higher level instead > of directly. As I said, I'm not very familiar with specs and stuff, and I've read repeatedly on this list and other places that one should only test one's own code. That is, if you declare a has_many association, you shouldn't test that the methods actually return the proper model objects, etc., because that would be testing ActiveRecord. In that same spirit, I thought I shouldn't test that a named_scope does what it's supposed to, only that it is declared (because that one line is all I wrote myself). But I guess I got a bit carried away, as in that declaration there is stuff besides the declaration itself, namely, the bit specifying the order. So it would be better to test for that, rather than just testing if it was declared or not. Thanks a lot for your help :) > > Pat > > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > -- Helder Ribeiro ProFUSION Embedded Systems http://profusion.mobi "If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders" -- Jeff Goll _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
