In the app I am working on, there are a lot of observers for various models which call Event.create! to log stuff... So within a particular example, various records might be created in order to test behavior-- and this would result in several events being created.
So say, I have a spec that does: it "creates an event when sharing a post" do user = create_user # this will make an event record of type "user created" post = create_post(:user => user) # this will make an event record of type "post created" post.share! # check to see that Event has a "post shared" event end ... Normally I would just do Event.last.event_type.should == "post shared" However, if the Event model has it's default_scope set to order records in a certain way, that test might fail. So I could do: Event.unscoped.last.event_type.should == "post shared" But then I begin thinking maybe it should be more like this: it "creates an event when sharing a post" do Event.exists?(:event_type => "post shared").should be_false user = create_user # this will make an event record of type "user created" post = create_post(:user => user) # this will make an event record of type "post created" post.share! Event.exists?(:event_type => "post shared").should be_true end ... I'm just not sure what's the best way to go, and if there's a convention for this sort of thing? Patrick J. Collins http://collinatorstudios.com _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
