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Use Shoulda's validate_uniqueness_of matcher correctly

Henning Koch
September 08, 2010Software engineer at makandra GmbH

Works without requiring an initial record in modern versions.

This raises "Could not find first Keyword":

describe Keyword do
  it { should validate_uniqueness_of(:text) }
end
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Do this instead:

describe Keyword do

  it 'should have a unique #text' do
    Keyword.make
    should validate_uniqueness_of(:text)
  end

end

This is the intended behavior.

Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2010-09-08 16:44)