Not if you follow the One True Way of Unit Testing (tm) where the Mongoid lib would have been mocked away, and the test would pass :)

Integration tests might've done the job here.

You dont mock the db layer, i dont do that at least, hell no. Let the db be hit, check that the records it returns make sense. Thats how I roll at least.

Didn't want to aim at you with the reply, just remembered the collective delusion of 100% coverage unit testing zealots and how this would ironically fail to catch this.

You'd be surprised how far people go to shoot themselves in the foot.