I realize this is off-topic for the RSpec forum and cucumber tutorial, but I'm hoping you'll enlighten me on this point which is, I guess, more of a Ruby language question...
Aslak Hellesøy wrote: >> As you can see from my series of blog posts, I'm >> new to Ruby and Rails. I thought that ending a method with ! was a >> naming convention. Reading the humble ruby book it says "Another >> convention to follow is that if the method modifies its receiver in >> place (i.e. the method modifies the object that called it), then it >> should end in an exclamation point" and the Rails doc show examples of >> create without ! >> http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html#M001969 but if >> I make the change you suggest the test passes. I've updated the >> tutorial and my code, but I'm confused. >> > > The #create! method is documented here: > http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Validations/ClassMethods.html#M001902 > > Essentially, #create will never raise an error no matter what you pass > it, > and you actually want exceptions for bad input in your tests (step > definitions). > Therefore - use #create! (or #save!). In your app, use the non-bang > methods. My Task model is simply defined (by the generate scaffold script) as: class Task < ActiveRecord::Base end How is it that I can call Task.create! which is a method of ActiveRecord::Validations ? Thanks in advance, Sarah -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
