Question

app/models/zombie.rb

class Zombie < ActiveRecord::Base
    attr_accessible :name
    validates :name, presence: true
end

spec/models/zombie_spec.rb

require 'spec_helper'

describe Zombie do

    it "is invalid without a name" do
        zombie = Zombie.new
        zombie.should_not be_valid
    end
end

errors

Zombie
is invalid without a name (FAILED – 1)
Failures:

 1) Zombie is invalid without a name
    Failure/Error: zombie.should_not be_valid
    ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid:
      Could not find table 'zombies'
    # ./spec/models/zombie_spec.rb:5:in `new'
    # ./spec/models/zombie_spec.rb:5:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

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7 examples, 1 failure

Failed examples:

rspec ./spec/models/zombie_spec.rb:4 # Zombie is invalid without a name

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Answer 1

Thanks everyone, I was not running migrations so running rake db:migrate fixed it