Rails - Oct 2009 - people(:sam) should be saved to a @sam variable?

Hi all

When creating unit tests, I wondered whether I should rather use the
following...

people(:sam).name = "Sammy"
people(:sam).city = "Blah"

...or rather the following form:

@sam = people(:sam)
@sam.name = "Sammy"
@sam.city = "Blah"

Thanks
Josh
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Why would you want to do *either*? If you want your fixtures to have
different data, just change them.

In any case, the second way is preferable; I''m not 100% sure that the
first way won''t re-instantiate the fixture and zorch your changes.

--Matt Jones

On Oct 11, 5:15 am, Joshua Muheim
<rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Hi all
>
> When creating unit tests, I wondered whether I should rather use the
> following...
>
> people(:sam).name = "Sammy"
> people(:sam).city = "Blah"
>
> ...or rather the following form:
>
> @sam = people(:sam)
> @sam.name = "Sammy"
> @sam.city = "Blah"
>
> Thanks
> Josh
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> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

> I''m not 100% sure that the
> first way won''t re-instantiate the fixture and zorch your changes.
That''s exactly the point I want to know. As far as I can see it
doesn''t
re-instantiate it...

Thanks!
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