From: leah@...
Date: 2007-06-22T05:40:12+09:00
Subject: Unit Testing Custom Validation Method

Hey there

I've written a custom validation method (to validate an email
address).  It looks like

module ActiveRecord
  module Validations
    module ClassMethods

      def validates_as_email
        ...
      end

    end
  end
end

I've put this code in app/lib/custom_validations.rb

Now, I'm trying to write a unit test but I'm running into problems.
One attempt at a unit test looks like

require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../test_helper'
require 'lib/custom_validations'

class CustomValidationsTest < Test::Unit::TestCase

  def test_validates_as_email
    email = "someone@example.com"
    assert validates_as_email( email )
  end
end

This throws a
NoMethodError: undefined method `validates_as_email' for
#<CustomValidationsTest:0x314bd80>
It looks to me like the test is looking for the validates_as_email
method to be defined in CustomValidationsTest rather than finding it
in lib/custom_validations.rb


So, I tried this

require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../test_helper'
require 'lib/custom_validations'

class CustomValidationsTest < Test::Unit::TestCase

  def test_validates_as_email
    email = "someone@example.com"
    assert
ActiveRecord::Validations::ClassMethods.validates_as_email( email )
  end
end

And I got this error
NoMethodError: undefined method `validates_as_email' for
ActiveRecord::Validations::ClassMethods:Module

What am I missing?  I'll bet it's something simple, but I just can't
figure out what's wrong.  Thanks for the help.