I'm glad you found my snippet helpful! Testing associations is trickier, and I must admit that I don't test associations as thoroughly as I probably should. I usually just test that the record responds to the association (e.g.: record.must_respond_to :association).
I took a look at the "shoulda-matchers" gem's source code<https://github.com/thoughtbot/shoulda-matchers/blob/master/lib/shoulda/matchers/active_record/association_matcher.rb>. Those association matchers test for a whole bunch of stuff (foreign keys, join tables, correct class names, etc.), some of which are probably re-testing ActiveRecord functionality which we should be able to assume works correctly. A good test for associations should fall somewhere in between these two extremes. I'd love to hear if anyone else has suggestions. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/TjqbTOsfhGkJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
