Could not get expect nil to work

[kwokster10]

I tried this in a controller spec:

let(:model) { FactoryGirl.create(:model) }

it 'association does not equal nil' do
     post :add_assocation, { <necessary_params> }
     expect{ model.reload.association }.to eventually_not eq nil
end

Also tried:

 expect{ model.association }.to eventually_not eq nil
 expect{ model.reload.association }.to_not eventually eq nil
 expect{ model.reload.association }.to eventually_not(eq nil)
 expect{ model.reload.association }.to eventually_not(eq nil).within 5

here's the error message:

After 46 tries, the last failure message was:

       expected: nil
            got: nil

       (compared using ==)

Model and association have a one to one relationship.

Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.

[hawknewton]

Try replacing model.reload.association above with nil and run the specs as I am unable to recreate the issue.

You also may want to try the be_nil matcher. You could be getting a value that serializes to the string nil.

[kwokster10]

I have used the be_nil matcher as well. If I replace model.reload.association with nil, then I would be testing nil to eventually equal nil, which works but I want to check that model.reload.association is equal to nil.