ruby-on-railsshoulda

Shoulda cannot properly validate case-sensitive unique


Using shoulda and FactoryGirl to test model validation.

Factory

FactoryGirl.define do
  factory :tag do
    value { Faker::Lorem.word }

    user
  end
end

Tag Model

class Tag < ApplicationRecord
  validates :value,
            presence: true,
            uniqueness: { case_sensitive: false }

  belongs_to :user
  has_and_belongs_to_many :cards
end

Tag Spec

RSpec.describe Tag, type: :model do
  describe 'validations' do
    it { should validate_presence_of(:value) }
    it { should validate_uniqueness_of(:value) }
  end

  describe 'associations' do
    it { should belong_to(:user) }
    # it { should have_and_belong_to_many(:cards) }
  end
end

I get the following error when I run the test,

Failures:

  1) Tag validations should validate that :value is case-sensitively unique
     Failure/Error: it { should validate_uniqueness_of(:value) }

       Tag did not properly validate that :value is case-sensitively unique.
         After taking the given Tag, setting its :value to ‹"an arbitrary
         value"›, and saving it as the existing record, then making a new Tag
         and setting its :value to a different value, ‹"AN ARBITRARY VALUE"›,
         the matcher expected the new Tag to be valid, but it was invalid
         instead, producing these validation errors:

         * value: ["has already been taken"]
         * user: ["must exist"]
     # ./spec/models/tag_spec.rb:6:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'
     # -e:1:in `<main>'

Solution

  • The correct way to test case_insensitive is to using matcher below,

    it { should validate_uniqueness_of(:value).case_insensitive }