Rails core - Oct 2006 - fixture magic with associations: never use a FK id again!

I''ve written some fun code to ease the pain of associating between
fixtures.  ''Tis tested and documented!  Essentially it allows you to
replace this syntax

  user_id: 5

with this:

  user: :joe

as long as you have users.yml with

joe:
  id: 5


http://blog.caboo.se/articles/2006/10/17/named-references-for-test-fixtures
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/6424

There''s not much actual code in there, and I sacrificed brevity for
readability.
Comments?

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How do the dependencies work? Does it just scan the already-loaded
fixtures? Use the first-found in case of duplicate keys?

On 10/17/06, Courtenay <court3nay@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I''ve written some fun code to ease the pain of associating between
> fixtures.  ''Tis tested and documented!  Essentially it allows you
to
> replace this syntax
>
>   user_id: 5
>
> with this:
>
>   user: :joe
>
> as long as you have users.yml with
>
> joe:
>   id: 5
>
>
> http://blog.caboo.se/articles/2006/10/17/named-references-for-test-fixtures
> http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/6424
>
> There''s not much actual code in there, and I sacrificed brevity
for readability.
> Comments?
>
> >
>
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No.  Once all fixtures are loaded from this statement

fixtures :foo, :bar

It looks in :foo and :bar as the table names to match.  It will only
attempt to match if the value in this statement is a symbol:
  user: :fred

In the case of duplicate keys, you''re on your own and probably have
bigger fish to fry.
If you''re relying on symbols loading into fixtures you''re
probably
screwed, but then, who does that?

This is intended to be a really lightweight addition for people on the
golden path of rails.  More advanced matching algorithms of course
welcome.


On 10/17/06, Obie Fernandez <obiefernandez@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> How do the dependencies work? Does it just scan the already-loaded
> fixtures? Use the first-found in case of duplicate keys?
>
> On 10/17/06, Courtenay <court3nay@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I''ve written some fun code to ease the pain of associating
between
> > fixtures.  ''Tis tested and documented!  Essentially it allows
you to
> > replace this syntax
> >
> >   user_id: 5
> >
> > with this:
> >
> >   user: :joe
> >
> > as long as you have users.yml with
> >
> > joe:
> >   id: 5
> >
> >
> >
http://blog.caboo.se/articles/2006/10/17/named-references-for-test-fixtures
> > http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/6424
> >
> > There''s not much actual code in there, and I sacrificed
brevity for readability.
> > Comments?
> >
> > >
> >
>
> >
>
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Been waiting for this for a while.  Thanks for the patch!

Remind me why yaml is preferred to a ruby DSL again?


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