Question

I was just starting out with RSpec, and im trying to do something quite trivial, but I couldnt find any good documentation on a good way of doing this. I want to test a sequence of events, say the friendship between two users.

My spec is:

describe User do

  describe "friendships" do
    describe ".friends?" do
      before do
        @user1 = FactoryGirl.build(:user)
        @user2 = FactoryGirl.build(:user)
      end

      it "should be false for non friends" do
        @user1.friends?(@user2).should be false
        @user2.friends?(@user1).should be false
      end

      it "should be false for requested friendship" do
        Friendship.create(:user_id => @user1.id, :friend_id => @user2.id)  # 1
        @user1.friends?(@user2).should be false
        @user2.friends?(@user1).should be false
      end

      it "should be true for accepted friendship" do
        Friendship.for_users(@user1, @user2).update_attribute(:approved, true) # 2
        @user1.friends?(@user2).should be true
        @user2.friends?(@user1).should be true
      end
    end

  end
end

I am creating a friendship at the line marked # 1, and expect it to be present at line # 2, but I am guessing the database gets flushed in between the two.

Is this the wrong way of testing such a flow of events? What should I be doing? Any pointers would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

I guess you are looking for context. Something like this:

context "when friends" do
  before { Friendship.create ... }

  it "should be false for requested friendship"

  it "should be true for accepted friendship"
end

Sorry to say that but you should probably take a look on rspec docs: basic structure (describe/it)