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- [Are They All True?](ruby/are-they-all-true.md)
- [Assoc For Hashes](ruby/assoc-for-hashes.md)
- [Block Comments](ruby/block-comments.md)
- [Chaining Multiple RSpec Change Matchers](ruby/chaining-multiple-rspec-change-matchers.md)
- [Colorful Output With MiniTest](ruby/colorful-output-with-minitest.md)
- [Comparing Class Hierarchy Relationships](ruby/comparing-class-hierarchy-relationships.md)
- [Comparing Arrays In RSpec](ruby/comparing-arrays-in-rspec.md)

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# Chaining Multiple RSpec Change Matchers
It can be handy to use RSpec's `change` matchers to determine if some method
or process creates a new record.
```ruby
expect{ Registration.create(attrs) }.to change{ User.count }.by(1)
```
But what if we are testing a method that creates a couple different records
in the system?
RSpec allows us to chain together `change` matchers with `and`. Consider
this additional contrived example.
```ruby
expect {
Project.generate(attrs)
}.to change{ Project.count }.by(1).and \
change{ User.count }.by(1)
```
In addition to keeping our tests tight and concise, this approach gives
some pretty nice output on failure.
If we were just beginning our implementation with a failing test, we'd see a
multi-part failure like the following.
```ruby
Failure/Error:
expect {
Project.generate(attrs)
}.to change{ Project.count }.by(1).and \
change{ User.count }.by(1)
expected result to have changed by 1, but was changed by 0
...and:
expected result to have changed by 1, but was changed by 0
```