I have a User model and a Project model.
Users can create many projects, while a project has one owner and can have many members.
#app/models/user.rb
class User < ApplicationRecord
has_secure_password
has_many :projects
has_and_belongs_to_many :projects
end
#app/models/project.rb
class Project < ApplicationRecord
belongs_to :user
has_and_belongs_to_many :users
end
And this will create a database tables something like this:
create_table "projects", force: :cascade do |t|
t.string "name"
t.integer "user_id" #id of the owner of the projects
t.datetime "created_at", null: false
t.datetime "updated_at", null: false
t.index ["user_id"], name: "index_projects_on_user_id"
end
create_table "projects_users", force: :cascade do |t|
t.integer "user_id" #id of the member of the project
t.integer "project_id" #project that the member joined
t.index ["project_id"], name: "index_projects_users_on_project_id"
t.index ["user_id"], name: "index_projects_users_on_user_id"
end
create_table "users", force: :cascade do |t|
t.string "first_name"
t.string "last_name"
t.string "email"
t.string "password_digest"
t.datetime "created_at", null: false
t.datetime "updated_at", null: false
end
Where the projects_users
table is the junction/bridge table created for has_and_belongs_to_many
association.
But whenever I run a test using rspec and shoulda only one of them succeeds the other one fails since in the user.rb
file :projects
are defined twice.
#spec/models/user_spec.rb
require 'rails_helper'
RSpec.describe User, :type => :model do
context 'associations' do
it { should have_many(:projects) } #error
it { should have_and_belong_to_many(:projects) } #success
end
end
The error is Failure/Error: it { should have_many(:projects) }
Expected User to have a has_many association called projects (actual association type was has_and_belongs_to_many)
#spec/models/project_spec.rb
require 'rails_helper'
RSpec.describe Project, :type => :model do
context 'associations' do
it { should belong_to(:user) } #success
it { should have_and_belong_to_many(:users) } #success
end
end
How can I test many associations in one model correctly?
As per the description shared , I was able to test has_many using the below mentioned snippet:
RSpec.describe User, :type => :model do
context 'associations' do
it "should have many projects" do
subject { described_class.new }
assc = described_class.reflect_on_association(:projects)
expect(assc.macro).to eq :has_many
end
end
end