Rails - Jul 2008 - Unit test patterned after AWDR p. 186 doesn't work as expect

I have the following Ruby migration:

class CreateSimulations < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def self.up
    create_table :simulations do |t|
        t.string :name, :desc, :time_units
        t.column :run_length,   :float

      t.timestamps
    end
  end

  def self.down
    drop_table :simulations
  end
end

My class has the following validations:

class Simulation < ActiveRecord::Base

   validates_uniqueness_of :name
    validates_numericality_of :run_length
    validates_inclusion_of :time_units,
                            :in => %w{sec min hr days},
                            :message => "should be
''sec'', ''min'', ''hr'',
''days''"
    validates_presence_of :name, :time_units, :run_length

end

My unit test looks like this:

def test_unique_name
    sim1 = Simulation.new( :name => "base", :run_length =>
84600,
:time_units =>"sec")
    assert sim1.save

    sim2 = Simulation.new
    sim2.name ="base"
    sim2.run_length = 8
    sim2.time_units = "hr"
    assert !sim2.save, sim2.errors.on(:name)
    assert_equal
ActiveRecord::Errors.default_error_messages[:taken],sim2.errors.on(:name)
  end


It fails on the assert_equal line with the following info:


  1) Failure:
test_unique_name(SimulationTest)
    [test/unit/simulation_test.rb:61:in `test_unique_name''
     c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/testi
ng/setup_and_teardown.rb:33:in `__send__''
     c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/testi
ng/setup_and_teardown.rb:33:in `run'']:
already taken.
<"has already been taken"> expected but was
<["has already been taken", "has already been
taken"]>.

4 tests, 17 assertions, 1 failures, 0 errors

Why are there 2 copies of the "has already been taken" error message? 
A
similar test with a different object works just fine.

Thanks,
Louise
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>
> Why are there 2 copies of the "has already been taken" error
message?  A
> similar test with a different object works just fine.
Random guess: somewhere in your app or in its tests you''ve got a
"require ''simulation''" that is loading simulation.rb
a second time.

Fred
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Frederick Cheung wrote:
>>
>> Why are there 2 copies of the "has already been taken" error
message? �A
>> similar test with a different object works just fine.
> 
> Random guess: somewhere in your app or in its tests you''ve got a
> "require ''simulation''" that is loading
simulation.rb a second time.
> 
> Fred
Good guess, that was exactly the problem.

Thanks!
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