Question

Here is the test that is failing:

before(:each) do
    @attr = { 
      :user_id => "1", 
      :project_id => "1",
      :owner_type => "client"
    }
  end

  it "should create a new instance given valid attributes" do
     Ownership.create!(@attr)
   end

Here is the failure:

Failures:

  1) Ownership should create a new instance given valid attributes
     Failure/Error: Ownership.create!(@attr)
     ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid:
       Validation failed: User can't be blank, Project can't be blank
     # ./spec/models/ownership_spec.rb:14:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

I don’t have any validation for a User or Project to not be blank. Here is my ownership model:

class Ownership < ActiveRecord::Base
  attr_accessible :owner_type

  belongs_to :project
  belongs_to :user

  validates :user_id, :presence => true

  validates :project_id, :presence => true

  validates :owner_type, :presence => true

end

Am I missing something? What did I do wrong? Also, the ownerships aren’t getting created in the actual app..this is what i’m using but isn’t working:

current_user.ownerships.create(:owner_type => 'designer', :project => @project)

here is my user model:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  attr_accessible :name, :email, :admin, :projects

  has_many :ownerships
  has_many :projects, :through => :ownerships

  accepts_nested_attributes_for :projects

Answer 1

Add :user_id and :project_id to attr_accesible. Like you have done it for :owner_type. So it should look like

attr_accessible :owner_type, :user_id, :project_id

This should solve the problem.