1. The blueprint has username and my user had login instead of username so my blueprint looks like the below

User.blueprint do

login

email

password 'monkey'

password_confirmation "#{password}"

activation_code nil

end

Also here is the sham definition for people that care:

Sham.define do

email { Faker::Internet.email }

login { Faker::Internet.user_name }

end

The reason for the setting the activation_code to nil is so that my tests dont generate the emails that happen as observers during signup. I had to change the default user observer that restful_auth puts in to be the following

def after_create(user)

UserMailer.deliver_signup_notification(user) if user.active?

end

Hope that helps others get a passing set of tests

thanks

Maybe the rule for idiom should be like this:

Use a bang if:

An activerecord model is changing something in the db.

A activerecord model is saving or failing (e.g. create!, save!)

A method is changing session state in a test.

Hmm, what else?