Question

I have the following spec:

  context "no firstname present" do
    let(:contact) { build :contact, firstname: 'Mickey', lastname: '', companyname: '' }
    it "should be valid" do
      should be_valid # Does not work
      contact.should be_valid # Works
    end
  end

Why does should be_valid fails, but contact.should be_valid passes? Within the it block, should be_valid should access contact anyway?! Thanks for clarification.

Answer 1

You could use subject

context "no firstname present" do
  let(:contact) { build :contact, firstname: 'Mickey', lastname: '', companyname: '' }
  subject { contact }
  it { should be_valid }
end

Edit

I just discovered its [link] which is a great way to test the subject‘s attributes or test messages sent to it