recreate the models without mucking with internal caches of the relation
objects, then the test fails.

For example:

class Man < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :interests
end

class Interest < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :man
end

Then do this test:

def test_validate_presence_of_parent_fails_without_inverse_of
  repair_validations(Interest) do
    Interest.validates_presence_of(:man)
    assert_no_difference ['Man.count', 'Interest.count'] do
      man = Man.create(:name => 'John',
                       :interests_attributes => [{:topic=>'Cars'}, {:topic=>'Sports'}])
      assert_not_predicate man.errors[:"interests.man"], :empty?
    end
  end
end

The test will fail.  This is a bad test, so I am removing it.