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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I'm new to RSpec so excuse me if I'm missing something obvious here. I
recently renamed an attribute on a model, and my generated view spec didn’t
detect it. This resulted in a defect going through undetected. Even worse, I’m
not sure how I could reasonably get RSpec to detect such a change. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I suspect the problem isn’t specific to RSpec, but I encountered
it whilst dealing with RSpec and thought this would be a good place to ask for
advice.<br>
<br>
The details: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I used RSpec to generate scaffolding for a model we'll call 'Resource'.
Resource has an attribute called 'entity'.<br>
<br>
It generated for me a view for a Resource - including its ‘entity’
attribute. It also generated a corresponding spec that looked like this:<br>
<br>
describe "/resources/index.html.erb" do<br>
include ResourcesHelper<br>
<br>
before(:each) do<br>
resource_98 = mock_model(Resource)<br>
resource_98.should_receive(<wbr>:entity).and_return("MyString")<br>
...<br>
end<br>
<br>
it "should render list of resources" do<br>
render "/resources/index.html.erb"<br>
response.should have_tag("tr>td",
"MyString", 2)<br>
..<br>
end<br>
end<br>
<br>
It also generated a fixture and model spec, which I tweaked as follows:<br>
<br>
describe Resource do<br>
fixtures :resources<br>
<br>
it "should have an entity" do<br>
resources(:one).entity.should == 'MyString'<br>
end<br>
end<br clear=all>
<br>
Both specs pass. Excuse the lame model spec - I'm about to get to the point.<br>
<br>
Next I decided I wanted to rename the 'entity' attribute to 'entities'. My
model spec failed, so I fixed it. However, the view spec didn't fail. It
expected that the view would call 'entity' on the mock Resource - and this was
indeed still the case.<br>
<br>
However, when I went and actually looked at the page, it died - the 'entity'
attribute didn't exist anymore on the model.<br>
<br>
I'm not sure how I could have picked that up with an automated test. <br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Any ideas?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Ben</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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