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Ruby

Posted by Matthew McCulloch
Matthew McCulloch
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Writing tests - Where is the devise inherited user class?

Decided I wanted to do some more tests at the end of the Writing tests section, and got an unexpected pass on the first one I ran.

test "a user should enter an email"  do
    user = User.new
    assert !user.save
    assert !user.errors[:email].empty?
end

I checked the user.rb file and I have no validates markup on the email attribute, is this an instance of convention over code where Ruby assumes attributes named email are required? Just started thinking about it and is User an inherited class from devise?

That must be it, so my real question is where are the devise base classes or are they some type of compiled code somewhere? And should unit tests be written on the attributes that devise defined such as email/password?

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