In the app I am working on, there are a lot of observers for various
models
which call Event.create! to log stuff… So within a particular
example,
various records might be created in order to test behavior-- and this
would
result in several events being created.
So say, I have a spec that does:
it “creates an event when sharing a post” do
user = create_user # this will make an event record of
type “user created”
post = create_post(:user => user) # this will make an event record of
type “post created”
post.share!
check to see that Event has a “post shared” event
end
…
Normally I would just do Event.last.event_type.should == “post shared”
However, if the Event model has it’s default_scope set to order records
in a
certain way, that test might fail.
So I could do:
Event.unscoped.last.event_type.should == “post shared”
But then I begin thinking maybe it should be more like this:
it “creates an event when sharing a post” do
Event.exists?(:event_type => “post shared”).should be_false
user = create_user # this will make an event record of type “user
created”
post = create_post(:user => user) # this will make an event record of
type “post created”
post.share!
Event.exists?(:event_type => “post shared”).should be_true
end
… I’m just not sure what’s the best way to go, and if there’s a
convention
for this sort of thing?
Patrick J. Collins
http://collinatorstudios.com