Testing a Devise model with Shoulda

Testing
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Hi there,

I’m trying to use shoulda-matchers to test a User model which is powered by Devise.

I’ve got the following code in my User spec:

describe User do
  it { should_not allow_value('bad_word').for(:bio) }
  ...
end

When I run the spec, I get the following error:

 Failure/Error: it { should_not allow_value('bad_word').for(:bio) }
   Expected errors  when bio is set to "bad_word", got errors: ["email can't be blank (\"\")", "password can't be blank (nil)"]

It looks like Devise is catching the email and password validations before even getting a chance to spit out an error for the lack of bio validation.

Is there a way that I can make Shoulda set an email/password before hand so that it can get past this?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

2

Alright, I guess I should have finished writing the code to make the spec pass before assuming there was something wrong.

Once I added the validators I had no problem getting the User spec to pass, despite the fact that Devise was adding other validation errors.

My bad!