Augmenting the User Show Page

We begin with tests for displaying the user’s microposts, which we’ll create in the request spec for Users. Our strategy is to create a couple of factory microposts associated with the user, and then verify that the show page contains each post’s content. We’ll also verify that, as in Figure 10.4, the total number of microposts also gets displayed.

We can create the posts with the let method, but as in Listing 10.13 we want the association to exist immediately so that the posts appear on the user show page. To accomplish this, we use the let! variant:

With the microposts so defined, we can test for their appearance on the profile page using the code in Listing 10.19.