Question

I am writing my specs on my model Thing which has a date field which should be after the date of creation, thus I use the validate_timeliness plugin like that

validate_date :date, :after Time.now

I want to be able to add some Things with an anterior date but validation fails. I want to bypass the validation when creating some Things with the machinist factory.

Any clue ?

Answer 1

Shouldn’t your validation ensure that the date is after the created_at attribute?? Rather than Time.now???

You shouldn’t be trying to use invalid data in your tests, what you probably should do instead is fudge the created at time.

@thing = Thing.make(:created_at => 1.day.ago)

The only reason to try and put a time in the past in your spec surely should be to test that the validation is indeed working ..

@thing = Thing.make_unsaved(:date => 1.day.ago)
@thing.should have(1).error_on(:date)

Is there a reason why you want to do this? What are you trying to test??