Rspec test to confirm rejection of four invalid dates
The reason is that if this test fails, you'll have to separately determine which of the 4 sub-expectations has failed.

Depending on the output of your test reporter, this may or may not be a practical problem.


  This test is testing only one thing at a time (is obviously malformed input resulting in exceptions).


Actually, you're testing:


invalid digits raise an error
non-date characters raise an error
nil raises an error
negative numbers raise an error


That said, if you're essentially doing manual fuzzing and don't care about those distinctions -- though I'd say they seem useful in this particular case -- then I don't see an issue with this.  

Testing rules and best practices are helpful, but don't get too bogged down in them.  If you know your own testing goals, and understand why it might be ok to depart from a best practice, by all means do so.