RSpec's let! equivalent in ActiveSupport::TestCase

Question

In RSpec you can use let!(:user) { User.create } to eager load :user variable so it gets created before entering test case. Is there equivalent method in ActiveSupport::TestCase ?

Answer 1

Since tests in TestCase are basically ruby classes, you can always define instance variables to your test in the setup method (which is the first thing executed in a test):

UserTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase

  def setup
    @user = User.create
  end

  test 'my user test' do
    assert_not @user.nil?
  end

end