Rails - Nov 2004 - Problem with unit tests

Hi list

I''m trying to unit test my little rail app and run into the following  
problems (using the new beta gems)

Model: Person, database table: people

Unit Test:
require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../test_helper''
require ''person''

class PersonTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
   def setup
     @people = create_fixtures "person"
   end

   def test_count_my_fixtures
     assert_equal 2, Person.count
   end
end


and I have a file "person.yaml" in test/fixtures/person

When I run "rake test_units" I get the following message:
   2) Error:
test_count_my_fixtures(PersonTest):
ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: Table ''mush_test.person''
doesn''t exist:
DELETE FROM person
    
c:/dev/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.0.0.20041114/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb:339:in
`log''
    
c:/dev/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.0.0.20041114/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:67:in
`delete''
    
c:/dev/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.0.0.20041114/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:105:in
`delete_existing_fixtures''
    
c:/dev/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.0.0.20041114/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:83:in
`initialize''
    
c:/dev/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.0.0.20041114/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:68:in
`new''
    
c:/dev/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.0.0.20041114/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:68:in
`create_fixtures''

    
c:/dev/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.0.0.20041114/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:67:in
`map''
    
c:/dev/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.0.0.20041114/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:67:in
`create_fixtures''

    
c:/dev/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.0.0.20041114/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:66:in
`transaction''
    
c:/dev/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.0.0.20041114/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:66:in
`create_fixtures''

     ./test/unit/../test_helper.rb:8:in `create_fixtures''
     ./test/unit/person_test.rb:6:in `setup''


(and the same error for the other models).

The problem seems to be that the table name isn''t pluralized

Any ideas?
thanks
jc

> I''m trying to unit test my little rail app and run into the
following
> problems (using the new beta gems)
>
> class PersonTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
>   def setup
>     @people = create_fixtures "person"
>   end
The 0.8.0 release had a bug in the new_model generator that makes it 
incorrectly specify the table name and fixtures directory in singular. 
This is fixed in CVS and will be part of the new release, but until 
then do:

1) Change create_fixtures "person" to "people"
2) Rename test/fixtures/person to test/fixtures/people

That should do it.
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