Correct way of testing "associations" with Rspec?

Question

I am trying to test the following scenario:

-> I have a model called Team which it just makes sense when it has been created by a User. Therefore, each Team instance has to be related to a User.

In order to test that, I have done the following:

describe Team do  ...    it "should be associated with a user" do     no_user_team = Team.new(:user => nil)     no_user_team.should_not be_valid   end  ...  end 

Which forces me to change the Team model as:

class Team < ActiveRecord::Base   # Setup accessible (or protected) attributes for your model   attr_accessible :name, :user    validates_presence_of :name   validates_presence_of :user    belongs_to :user end 

Does this seem correct to you? I am just worried of make the :user attribute as accessible (mass assignment).

Answer 1

I usually use this approach:

describe User do   it "should have many teams" do     t = User.reflect_on_association(:teams)     expect(t.macro).to eq(:has_many)   end end 

A better solution would be to use the gem shoulda which will allow you to simply:

describe Team do   it { should belong_to(:user) } end