Codeception How to test if a User has a Role - testing

Question

I am trying to get into the habit of writing tests as I go.
I am using Laravel 4.2 to build an application that registers Users and assigns different roles to different user types.
I want to write a test that will check to see if a User has a Role. I am using Entrust to manage my Roles/Permissions and Laracasts/TestDummy to generate dummy objects.
The Roles are stored in a pivot table, so I am essentially testing for the existance of a many to many relationship
The TestDummy documentation states that I need to define my objects and their relationships in a fixtures.yml file and gives an example
Post:
title: Hello World $string
body: $text
published_at: $date
author_id:
type: Author
Author:
name: John Doe $integer
The above layout defines a one to one relationship. A post has An Author.
What I am trying to test for is A User has A Role, where many Users can have Many Roles
I want to know how to define this in my fixtures.yml file
in my mind
If I wanted to test a Many to Many Relationship (Many Users have Many Roles) could I reference it like this?
Excel\Users\User:
username: $string$integer
email: $string$integer#example.com
password: $string
created_at: $date
updated_at: $date
\Role:
name: $string
created_at: $date
updated_at: $date
Assigned_Role:
user_id:
type: Excel\Users\User
role_id:
type: \Role
The problem as I see it is that Assigned_Role does not have a model as it is just a pivot table
How could I test if a User has a specific Role?

Answer 1

TestDummy only supports generating belongs to relations. You can try something like this, assuming you want to test a method on User like hasRole($role).
$user = Factory::create('Excel\Users\User');
$role = Factory::create('Role');
$user->roles()->attach($role);
$this->assertTrue($user->hasRole($role));
$user->roles()->detach($role);
$this->assertFalse($user->hasRole($role));