Exactly. The usual way to deal with this would be to move the `where(:x => "y").where(:y => "z")` logic to a scope on the Model and test the scope in a unit tes

Exactly. The usual way to deal with this would be to move the `where(:x => "y").where(:y => "z")` logic to a scope on the Model and test the scope in a unit test by checking if it returns the records as intended.