Querying our object's state using RSpec2 instead of a debugger

railsy_object_spec.rb

describe RailsyObject do
  describe "predicates" do
    before do
      @railsy_obj = FactoryGirl.create(:railsy_object)
    end

    describe "#compound?" do
      it "should pass for the default object from FactoryGirl" do
        @railsy_obj.should be_simple
        @railsy_obj.should be_clean
        @railsy_obj.should be_complicated

        @railsy_obj.should be_compound
      end
    end
  end
end

rspec_output.txt

$ bundle exec rspec spec                                                                                          
F

Failures:

  1) RailsyObject predicates#compound? should pass for the default object from FactoryGirl
     Failure/Error: @railsy_obj.should be_simple
       expected simple? to return true, got false
     # ./spec/models/railsy_object_spec.rb:12:in `block (4 levels) in <top (required)>'

Finished in 0.01648 seconds
1 example, 1 failure

Failed examples:

rspec ./spec/models/railsy_object_spec.rb:11 # RailsyObject predicates#compound? should pass for the default object from FactoryGirl