Rails - Nov 2006 - dynamic fixture reading in a file

I have a text field in a database that I would like to populate with  
some data. In my fixture yaml file I''m trying to read in the file as  
an entry, but rails barfs on it.

Here''s what it looks like:

one:
   id:       1
   manifest: <%= File.read(''MANIFEST'').to_yaml %>

The ''MANIFEST'' file is a plist (a type of xml). The
AR::read_fixtures
method barfs and complains that the yaml file requires a specific  
kind of format.

Anyone know how to correctly read in a file inside a fixture to  
populate a text field? Thanks

cr

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On Nov 18, 2006, at 5:35 PM, cremes.devlist-ee4meeAH724@public.gmane.org wrote:
>
> I have a text field in a database that I would like to populate with
> some data. In my fixture yaml file I''m trying to read in the file
as
> an entry, but rails barfs on it.
>
> Here''s what it looks like:
>
> one:
>    id:       1
>    manifest: <%= File.read(''MANIFEST'').to_yaml %>
>
> The ''MANIFEST'' file is a plist (a type of xml). The
AR::read_fixtures
> method barfs and complains that the yaml file requires a specific
> kind of format.
I see the problem a little more clearly now. When I read in the file,  
it has linefeeds and carriage returns in it which are preserved even  
when converting to yaml. Apparently the yaml file requires all  
multiline records to be indented the same way.

Luckily I do not need to preserve tabs, line feeds or carriage  
returns, so I rewrote the line to strip those out. This has the  
effect of keeping the file all on a single line in the yaml file, so  
it doesn''t choke.

one:
   id:         1
   manifest:   <%=
File.read(''MANIFEST'').gsub!(/[\t\n]/,'''')
%>

Anyone know how to do this in the event that I *do* need to preserve  
line feeds and carriage returns?

cr


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