[rspec-users] Accessing the model class from within an rspec-rails spec

[Pat Maddox]

Nick Hoffman <nick at deadorange.com> writes:

> On 2008-10-28, at 09:09, Cameron Booth wrote:
>> describe User do
>>   it_should_validate_presence_of :name
>> end
>>
>> I can get it working if I pass in User as an argument:
>>
>> describe User do
>>   it_should_validate_presence_of User, :name
>> end
>
> Hi Cameron. I haven't played with RSpec's internals at all, but
> considering that
>     #it_should_validate_presence_of
> is nested within
>     describe User do
> I would imagine that there's a way to grab "User". Have a look at the
> structure of the Example, ExampleGroup, etc classes. It'll be stored
> in one of those, somewhere.

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