The title of this post may be somewhat misleading; I am indeed UNIT testing this, and it works fine, however I'm also functional testing a POST to an action that is responsible for creating a new ActiveRecord object that's associated with the "parent" via has_many :through.
class Report < ActiveRecord::Base # ... has_many :report_notifiers has_many :notifiers, :through => :report_notifiers # ... end class ReportNotifier < ActiveRecord::Base # ... belongs_to :report # ... end So, creating a new report with a new notifier would be simple: @r = Report.new @r.notifiers << Notifier.create(:label => "something", :email => "[email protected]") But what happens when a user submits invalid e-mail address? Well, of course, the validation fails. But how do I go about testing for the presence of that validation failure message in my functional test? Here's my existing functional test: -------------------- def test_edit_with_invalid_notifiers m = Factory(:maintenance_report) # I dig factory_girl, great plugin post :edit, {:m => m, :id => m.id, :notifiers => [1, 2, 3, '', 0, 'asdfasf', "\n\n;';'''';UPDATE notifiers SET label=\"hacked\""], :new_notifiers => "not a valid email!asdfasdfasf afd asdfasf 2 w...@a asdf...\n\n\n\[email protected]"} # ...now what? end --------------------- As you can see, my test gives the controller action invalid data, which will trigger an error when the validation is attempted. But, given that the Notifier class, which contains the validation, belongs_to the Report class, which is what I'm creating a new one of, how do I test to see if we get any errors? i.e. in a template I'd just have: <%= errors_for :maintenance_report %> ...which would theoretically contain a bullet point saying something about "invalid e-mail address". But how do I test that? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
