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Test unique values in Rails model with Rspec

I wanted to test 'validates_uniqueness_of' for this model:

class CourseItem < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates_presence_of :course_id, :day, :url
  validates_uniqueness_of :course_id, :scope => :day, 
                          :message => "- this day has been already created."
end

I tried to create two objects with the same value and I was getting the validetion error when creating the second value, the spec was failing and I did not know you to test it. There is a custom matcher to test the uniqueness of fields and it is available with a gem developed by Bogdan Gusiev. This blog post will help you to get started: http://gusiev.com/2010/06/ultimate-rspec-matcher-to-test-validation/. That gem has other useful matchers too.

I checked that model with the following code:

	class CourseItem < ActiveRecord::Base
	validates_presence_of :course_id, :day, :url
	validates_uniqueness_of :course_id, :scope => :day, :message => "- this day has been already created."
	end
	describe CourseItem do
	# check uniqueness using this matcher https://github.com/bogdan/accept_values_for
	context "should create one item per day and per course only" do
	before do
	CourseItem.create! :day => 1, :course_id => 1, :url => '/courses/index.html'
	end
	it { should_not accept_values_for(:day => 1, :course_id => 1) }
	end
	end

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