as stated in Rails Book example , I have a fixtures file orders.yml valid_order_for_fred: id: 1 name: Fred email_address: fred@flinstone;com in my controller test file, I tried : fixtures :orders def test_save_valid_order post :save_order, :order => @valid_order_fo_fred.attributes but I get an error NoMethodError: You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! You might have expected an instance of ActiveRecord::Base. The error occurred while evaluating nil.attributes test/functional/orders_controller_test.rb:65:in `test_save_valid_order'' -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---