Obviously my noooooob question was embarrassingly noob - so I was forced to actually do some work and answer my own questions.
The answer was that I had to stub out the association - natch... before(:each) do assigns[:tipes] = [ stub_model(Tipe, :name => "value for name", :live => true, :category => stub_model(Category, :name =>"category", :live => true, :id => 1) ), stub_model(Tipe, :name => "value for name", :live => true, :category => stub_model(Category, :name =>"category", :live => true, :id => 1) ) ] And lo - it all works! Hurrah. So if anyone else is as much as an idiot as me (unlikely, but you never know) that is what you do. Ben _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users