Weird shoulda issue

rspec output

bundle exec rspec spec/models/user_spec.rb
..FF.FF

Failures:

  1) User validations 
     Failure/Error: it { should validate_presence_of(:secret) }
       Expected errors to include "can't be blank" when secret is set to nil, got errors: ["name can't be blank (nil)"]
     # ./spec/models/user_spec.rb:10:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'

  3) User validations 
     Failure/Error: it { should validate_uniqueness_of(:secret) }
       Expected errors to include "has already been taken" when secret is set to "c96e36f3cc7aac38767cef6212cdab38", got errors: ["name can't be blank (nil)"]
     # ./spec/models/user_spec.rb:13:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'

Source files.rb

# app/models/user.rb
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates :name,   :uniqueness => true, :presence => true 
  validates :secret, :uniqueness => true, :presence => true
  
  before_validation :assign_secret, :on => :create
  
  private 
  
    def assign_secret
      self.secret = SecureRandom.hex(16)      
    end
end


# spec/models/user_spec.rb

require 'spec_helper'
describe User do
  context "validations" do
    before(:each) { User.create!(:name => 'I am the First App') }

    it { should validate_presence_of(:name) }
    it { should validate_presence_of(:secret) }
    it { should validate_uniqueness_of(:name) }
    it { should validate_uniqueness_of(:secret) }
  end
end

hi I've the exact same problem. Did you manage to find a solution ?

thoughtbot/shoulda#178 (comment)