sorting gardens alphabetically, so behaviour is clearer

app/models/garden.rb

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ class Garden < ActiveRecord::Base
   has_many :plantings, :order => 'created_at DESC'
   has_many :crops, :through => :plantings
 
+  default_scope order("lower(name) asc")
+
   def garden_slug
     "#{owner.login_name}-#{name}".downcase.gsub(' ', '-')
   end

spec/factories/garden.rb

@@ -3,5 +3,15 @@ FactoryGirl.define do
     name 'Springfield Community Garden'
     description "This is a **totally** cool garden"
     owner
+
+    # the following are used for testing alphabetical ordering
+    factory :garden_a do
+      name 'A garden starting with A'
+    end
+
+    factory :garden_z do
+      name 'Zzzz this garden makes me sleepy'
+    end
+
   end
 end

spec/models/garden_spec.rb

@@ -59,4 +59,12 @@ describe Garden do
     end
   end
 
+  context 'ordering' do
+    it "should be sorted alphabetically" do
+      z = FactoryGirl.create(:garden_z)
+      a = FactoryGirl.create(:garden_a)
+      Garden.first.should == a
+    end
+  end
+
 end

spec/views/plantings/edit.html.haml_spec.rb

@@ -17,9 +17,8 @@ describe "plantings/edit" do
     @maize = FactoryGirl.create(:maize)
 
     # and likewise for gardens
-    @garden =  FactoryGirl.create(:garden, :owner => @right_member)
-    @garden2 = FactoryGirl.create(:garden, :owner => @right_member,
-        :name => "An alphabetically earlier garden")
+    @garden =  FactoryGirl.create(:garden_z, :owner => @right_member)
+    @garden2 = FactoryGirl.create(:garden_a, :owner => @right_member)
 
     @planting = assign(:planting,
       FactoryGirl.create(:planting, :garden => @garden, :crop => @tomato)

spec/views/plantings/new.html.haml_spec.rb

@@ -5,12 +5,15 @@ describe "plantings/new" do
     @member = FactoryGirl.create(:member)
 
     # create gardens and crops to populate dropdowns
-    @garden1 = FactoryGirl.create(:garden, :owner => @member, :name => 'Garden1')
-    @garden2 = FactoryGirl.create(:garden, :owner => @member, :name => 'Garden2')
+    @garden_a = FactoryGirl.create(:garden, :owner => @member)
+    @garden_z = FactoryGirl.create(:garden, :owner => @member)
     @crop1 = FactoryGirl.create(:tomato)
     @crop2 = FactoryGirl.create(:maize)
 
-    assign(:planting, FactoryGirl.create(:planting, :garden => @garden1))
+    assign(:planting, FactoryGirl.create(:planting,
+      :garden => @garden_a,
+      :crop => @crop2
+    ))
 
   end
 
@@ -24,8 +27,9 @@ describe "plantings/new" do
   context "logged in" do
     before(:each) do
       sign_in @member
+      assign(:planting, Planting.new())
       assign(:crop, @crop2)
-      assign(:garden, @garden2)
+      assign(:garden, @garden_z)
       render
     end
 
@@ -45,7 +49,7 @@ describe "plantings/new" do
 
     it "selects a garden given in a param" do
       assert_select "select#planting_garden_id",
-        :html => /option value="#{@garden2.id}" selected="selected"/
+        :html => /option value="#{@garden_z.id}" selected="selected"/
     end
   end
 end