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In my daily development, I migrate back and forth between versions, and often do: rake load_fixtures... ... in order to populate my development database with fun data. Now, with any HABTM relationship, there are failures, as there is no way to say "which" fixtures to load first. Within an actual functional or unit test case, you could simply load them in the proper order, but

Is there an easy way to use fixtures outside of a rails app? I''m using activerecord for a project and would love to use fixtures as well, but I haven''t found any info on doing this. I''m hoping it''s something quick and simple someone can explain to me so I don''t have to dig through the rails source :) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Recently I''ve wanted to be able to take the data I''ve painstakingly defined in my fixture files and slurp it up into my development database so I can play with my website (locally, in development mode) with the same data I use in my tests. In a similar vein, I want to take the table definitions in the development_structure.sql file and use it to re-define my development

My specs are still taking to long to run in a rails app. Is anyone using an in-memory database to run their specs? Any pointers or tips? Scott

Hi (I''m resubmitting this because First question: This is the rails dev list, correct? I''d like to submit a patch and am following the steps on this page: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ Here''s what I did (using mysql 5.0.15-nt): created 2 databases: activerecord_unittest activerecord_unittest2 created 1 user: rails (giving all priveleges to both databases) ran

Hi all, I''ve got some tables with fixed amounts of data in them (a "states" table, for example). For tables like this I can easily put *all* of the data in the fixture. For general futzing purposes, and for those times I want to reload a database from scratch outside of testing (for whatever reason), what''s the best approach? I thought perhaps ActiveRecord::Base had

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Anyone know what''s going on with ActiveRecord Edge and 1.2RC1 unit tests. I get 13 failures from the "async_exec" method call. ie: test_callback_rollback_in_save(ConcurrentTransactionTest): ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: NoMethodError: undefined method `async_exec'' for #<PGconn:0xb75a8754>: SET

Just started looking at the Story Runner integration, and am converting a few Rails integration tests to get a feel for it. My integration tests relied on fixtures, and since my models have a significant amount of validation (and hence need valid data unless I save without validation), this has made setup easy. With stories however, I''m wondering what the recommended approach is.

= Description This plugin is a super lightweight tool used to export data into the test/fixtures directory. So if you want to export all your data from your production server into your development environment, this will simplify the process without having to load up your database manager. [%] rake db:fixtures:export_all RAILS_ENV=development [%] rake db:fixtures:load = INSTALLATION

I left ":memory:" in database.yml for testing and the most simple tests in the Agile book do not work (see trace below for test_truth). Since that''s what comes with the distributed database.yml I suppose it''s me doing something wrong. Did someone get SQLite ":memory:" working? How does it grab the schema? -- fxn % rake test_units (in

Does anyone know how to extend the buit-in rake tasks like test:unit. I want to custom load some fixtures in a particular order. Thanks, Zack

Hi all, I just released RSpec 0.7.3. It''s got a few bug fixes and the rails plugin *should* run against both Rails 1.1.6 and 1.2.0-RC1. If you run into problems, please report bugs and feature requests in the tracker at rubyforge: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?group_id=797 Cheers, David

I can''t get fixtures to load correctly in a Mosquito test. The first fixture loads in the unit test, but the rest don''t load at all. File structure: tracker/ tracker.rb test/ test_tracker.rb fixtures/ tracker_measurements.yml tracker_projects.yml Relevant test code: require ''rubygems''

Hi I just did an update to lates trunk ================= context "Given a generated venue_spec.rb with fixtures loaded" do fixtures :venues specify "fixtures should load two Venues" do Venue.should have(2).records end end ================== gives me ========== 1) TypeError in ''Given a generated venue_spec.rb with fixtures loaded fixtures should load two

I''ve been googling around trying to find some tips on creating tests for plugins. Am I correct in assuming that I''d have to have the tests as part of a rails app in order to test the plugin? I''d like to find a way to do standalone tests for the plugin. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I was trying to deal with foreign key issues related to order of fixture loading when I came across this: http://techpolesen.blogspot.com/2007/04/rails-fixture-tips.html This got me looking deeper into rails and I noticed that db:fixtures:load calls Fixtures.create_fixtures once for each fixture file. However, Fixtures.create_fixtures is capable of taking multiple files and also handle the

ok, let me show you my "products" fixtures file: ram: id: 1 title: RAM description: ECC RAM Registered, 512MB image_url: images/test.jpg price: 29.95 date_available: 2005-01-25 00:00:00 busted_arsehole: id: 2 title: Busted Arsehole description: I have an arsehole, it is-e busted image_url: images/test.jpg price: 999.95

Hi all! I''m looking into the testing chapter of Agile Web Development With Rails (2nd ed.). I want to performance test my app, but I''m too lazy to write fixtures for performance test. I''d rather use the data from my development db (because the data is so close to the production data). How do I get the data into the test db without writing fixtures? Could you please

I just updated my Rails install to the most current Edge and my controller specs fail: 1) TypeError in ''The User Controller should be a user controller'' can''t convert nil into String Each spec fails the same way. <context string> <spec string> can''t convert nil into String Any ideas what''s up with this? Thanks, s.ross

Hi all, I need to write an application that gets data from a database and plots it on a graph. I am familiar with java and know that I could do it with jfreechart - however I am excited by RoR and would like to write the application with RoR instead. Is it possible to write it in RoR? Chris -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.