Switching to RSpec for testing

This is the first installment of the potential switch, it illustrates the format of model testing. If anyone has any input on how I can make these tests even better, while maintaining readability, I would really appreciate the help. I purposely only tested one method so that we can focus more on the style versus what is actually being tested. I'm hoping to decide on a style before this PR is merged.  @ferrous26 @zhangsu
Since we dropped support for Ruby 1.8, this can be replaced with
```ruby
require_relative '../config/environment'
```