[RUBY] A story I was addicted to with implicit type conversion of ActiveRecord during unit testing

Event

The following unit test code fails.

item_spec.rb


    it 'Only half-width numbers can be saved' do
      @item.price = '1000'
      @item.valid?
      expect(@item.errors.full_messages).to include('Price Half-width characters.')
    end

Cause

When assigning the character string "1000" to the integer type item "price", Implicit type conversion was done and the price was assigned the number "0".

↓ Check how implicit type conversion is performed on the console ↓

irb(main):002:0> @item.price = '1000'
=> "1000"
irb(main):003:0> @item.price
=> 0

After substituting the character string "1000", the price value will be the numerical value "0".

This is due to a feature called "ActiveRecord Attributes API" added in Rails 5. Implicit type conversion is an image in which the following setter is moving behind the scenes. The point is to_i.

  #Setter
  def price=(price)
    @price = price.to_i
  end

Conclusion

Solved by writing the following in the Item model

item.rb


class Item < ApplicationRecord
  attr_accessor :price

[Explanation] attr_accessor is a method that can realize setter / getter processing for items. The following description and "attr_accessor: price" have the same meaning.

  #Setter
  def price=(price)
    @price = price
  end

  #Getter
  def price
    @price
  end

That is, by calling a pure setter (not to_i) with this You will be able to assign a string that is not to_i to price.

irb(main):002:0> @item.price = '1000'
=> "1000"
irb(main):003:0> @item.price
=> "1000"

[Reference link]

For the mechanism of "Active Record Attributes API", I referred to the following article. https://www.wantedly.com/companies/wantedly/post_articles/31132

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