Question

I’m unable to resolve the following rspec validation error:

Failures:

  1) User treating associations should have the right treatings in the right order
     Failure/Error: FactoryGirl.create(:treating, requestor: @user, created_at: 1.day.ago)
     ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid:
       Validation failed: Requestee can't be blank
     # ./spec/models/user_spec.rb:143:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'

I’m dealing with two models, User and Treating (think of it as a meeting):

user.rb

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
    attr_accessible :name, :email, :password, :password_confirmation
    has_secure_password

    has_many :sent_treatings, :foreign_key => "requestor_id", :class_name => "Treating", dependent: :destroy
    has_many :received_treatings, :foreign_key => "requestee_id", :class_name => "Treating", dependent: :destroy

end

treating.rb

class Treating < ActiveRecord::Base
  attr_accessible :intro, :proposed_date, :proposed_location

  validates :intro, presence: true, length: { maximum: 190 }
  validates :requestor_id, presence: true
  validates :requestee_id, presence: true

    belongs_to :requestor, class_name: "User"
    belongs_to :requestee, class_name: "User"

    default_scope order: 'treatings.created_at DESC'

end

Finally, the portion from my user_spec that is giving me this error:

describe "treating associations" do
        before { @user.save }
        let!(:older_treating) do
            FactoryGirl.create(:treating, requestor: @user, created_at: 1.day.ago)
            FactoryGirl.create(:treating, requestee: @user, created_at: 1.day.ago)

        9end
        let!(:newer_treating) do
            FactoryGirl.create(:treating, requestor: @user, created_at: 1.hour.ago)
            FactoryGirl.create(:treating, requestee: @user, created_at: 1.hour.ago)
        end

        it "should have the right treatings in the right order" do
            @sent_treating = requestor.sent_treatings.build(intro: "Lorem ipsum")
            @sent_treating.requestee = requestee

            @received_treating = requestee.received_treatings.build(intro: "Lorem ipsum")
        @received_treating.requestor = requestor

            requestor.sent_treatings.should == [newer_treating, older_treating]
            requestee.received_treatings.should == [newer_treating, older_treating]
        end

I’m not sure why ‘requestee’ would be blank here and could use some help. Thank you.

EDIT: factory is below, thanks!

FactoryGirl.define do
    factory :user do
        sequence(:name) { |n| "Person #{n}" }
        sequence(:email) { |n| "person_#{n}@example.com"}
        password "foobar"
        password_confirmation "foobar"

        factory :admin do
            admin true
        end
    end

    factory :treating do
    intro "Lorem ipsum"
  end

end

(I’ve tried to add ‘user’, ‘requestor’, and ‘requestee’ below ‘intro’ in the :treating factory, but still no success). When I add ‘user’ in the factory file (below ‘intro “Lorem ipsum”), I get the following error:

1) User treating associations should have the right treatings in the right order
     Failure/Error: FactoryGirl.create(:treating, requestor: @user, created_at: 1.day.ago)
     NoMethodError:
       undefined method `user=' for #<Treating:0x00000104fa0668>
     # ./spec/models/user_spec.rb:143:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'

When I add ‘requestor’ and ‘requestee’ to the factory instead of user (and in addition to use), I get the following error:

Failures:

  1) User treating associations should have the right treatings in the right order
     Failure/Error: FactoryGirl.create(:treating, requestor: @user, created_at: 1.day.ago)
     ArgumentError:
       Trait not registered: requestee

Answer 1

The problem is that your Treating Factory does not have the requestor and requestee defined, and in addition, you need to tell FactoryGirl that requestor and requestee are aliases for a User

factory :user, :aliases => [:requestor, :requestee]  do
    sequence(:name) { |n| "Person #{n}" }
    sequence(:email) { |n| "person_#{n}@example.com"}
    password "foobar"
    password_confirmation "foobar"

    factory :admin do
        admin true
    end
end

factory :treating do
    intro "Lorem ipsum"
    requestor
    requestee
end