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Unit Tests

Explore how to create and run unit tests for the User and Product models in a Rails API. Understand validation testing and how to ensure cascading deletions work properly when users are removed.

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Data for testing

As discussed earlier, we need a user with one of the products to test the Product model and its interaction with the User model. Take a look at the fixture.yml of the Product model below.

Ruby
one:
  title: MyString
  price: 9.99
  published: false
  user: one
two:
  title: MyString
  price: 9.99
  published: false
  user: two

Note that this fixture does not use the attribute user_id, but rather user. This means ...