A goofy bit of code that takes your shoulda-style macro validations and generates a model class from it

shoulda_just_wrote_the_code_spec.rb

# A goofy bit of code that takes your shoulda-style macro validations and generates a model class from it


require 'rspec'
require 'active_model'

module ActiveRecordTranslator
  def it_should_validate_presence_of(field)
    klass = Class.new do
      include ActiveModel::Validations
      attr_reader field
      validates field, :presence => true
    end
    eval "::#{description} = klass"
  end
end

describe "User" do
  extend ActiveRecordTranslator

  it_should_validate_presence_of :name

  it "validates the name" do
    user = User.new
    user.should_not be_valid
  end
end