Rails - May 2005 - STI and unit tests

I have a PriorityItem model which is derived from Item :

class PriorityItem < Item
end

the problem is, my unit tests for PriorityItem fail when the fixtures
are loaded, rails looks for a ''priority_items'' table instead
of using
the ''items'' table

here''s the error I get :

1) Error:
test_truth(PriorityItemTest):
ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: #42S02Table
''hrdev_test.priority_items'' doesn''t exist
: DELETE FROM priority_items

any ideas where I''m going wrong? on a possibly related note, can the
model generator generate subclasses? i couldn''t figure out how so I
used it to generate PriorityItem then edited the file to change
inheritance from AR::Base to Item ... do I need to make changed to the
test classes too?

thanks for reading
alan

Alan Bullock <liststuff-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:
> I have a PriorityItem model which is derived from Item :
>
> class PriorityItem < Item
> end
>
> the problem is, my unit tests for PriorityItem fail when the fixtures
> are loaded, rails looks for a ''priority_items'' table
instead of using
> the ''items'' table
You need to edit your test/unit/priority_items_test.rb to remove the
fixtures: priority_items and set it to fixtures: items.  Obviously,
all your test data for the PriorityItem needs to be added to
test/fixtures/items.yml.
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