setting relationships in RSpec - ruby-on-rails-3

Question

I'm new to RSpec and I have the following code.
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
attr_accessible :email, :name, :admin, :active, :password, :password_confirmation
has_many :venues
has_many :events
...
end
class Venue < ActiveRecord::Base
attr_accessible :name, :url, :street, :city, :state, :description, :user_id
belongs_to :user
...
end
FactoryGirl.define do
factory :user do
sequence(:name) { |n| "Person #{n}"}
sequence(:email) { |n| "foo#{n}#example.com"}
password "secret"
password_confirmation "secret"
factory :admin do
admin true
end
factory :active_user do
active true
end
end
factory :venue do
sequence(:name) { |n| "Venue #{n}"}
sequence(:url) { |n| "mail#venue#{n}"}
sequence(:street) { |n| "#{n} Main St."}
city "Chicago"
state "IL"
end
end
In my test I want to create a venue object which has a user_id set to user.id but the following doesn't work:
describe "as active user" do
let(:active_user) { FactoryGirl.create(:active_user) }
let(:user_venue) { FactoryGirl.create(:venue, user: active_user) }
let(:other_venue) { FactoryGirl.create(:venue) }

Answer 1

Try to change your venue factory to
# rspec/factories/venue.rb
FactoryGirl.define do
factory :venue do
sequence(:name) { |n| "Venue #{n}"}
sequence(:url) { |n| "mail#venue#{n}"}
sequence(:street) { |n| "#{n} Main St."}
city "Chicago"
state "IL"
user
end
end
And use it in your spec this way
describe "as active user" do
let(:active_user) { FactoryGirl.create(:active_user) }
let(:user_venue) { FactoryGirl.create(:venue, user_id: active_user.id) }
...
end