How to change Factory girl boolean attribute inside the test

Question

Here is my factory:

factory :acceptance do
    favor
    user
    accepted false
  end

and here is my request spec:

describe "to acceptances" do
    let (:favor) { create(:favor, user: user) }
    let (:acceptance) { create(:acceptance, user: user, favor: favor)}

    context "when has accepted acceptance" do
      it "shold not allow sending more acceptances" do
        acceptance.accepted = true
        expect(permission.allow?(:acceptances, :create, favor)).to be false
      end

The problem is with acceptance.accepted = true. As I figured out, this is not setting the accepted attribute to be true. How can I achive this?

Thanks a lot for your time!

Answer 1

You need to save the record, otherwise you've only changed the local copy of acceptance. add acceptance.save or update_attribute will do the save for you.

describe "to acceptances" do
  let (:favor) { create(:favor, user: user) }
  let (:acceptance) { create(:acceptance, user: user, favor: favor)}

  context "when has accepted acceptance" do
    it "shold not allow sending more acceptances" do
      acceptance.update_attribute(:accepted, true)
      expect(permission.allow?(:acceptances, :create, favor)).to be false
    end
  end
end