Rails - Jun 2005 - association validation

Is there a way to turn "association type validation" off in rails?

If I have an unsaved Movie object that "has_many" Actor objects, it
complains
when I when I do something like this in my UTs:

movie.actor << TestActor.new

Thanks.
David

On Jun 19, 2005, at 8:22 AM, David Corbin wrote:
> Is there a way to turn "association type validation" off in
rails?
>
> If I have an unsaved Movie object that "has_many" Actor objects,
it
> complains
> when I when I do something like this in my UTs:
>
> movie.actor << TestActor.new
>
Is there some reason that you aren''t setting your fixtures to be  
"just right" from the beginning?  I don''t usually need to do
what
your code does because the data is all associated before the Unit  
Test starts.

Duane Johnson
(canadaduane)

On Sunday 19 June 2005 02:53 pm, Duane Johnson wrote:
> On Jun 19, 2005, at 8:22 AM, David Corbin wrote:
> > Is there a way to turn "association type validation" off in
rails?
> >
> > If I have an unsaved Movie object that "has_many" Actor
objects, it
> > complains
> > when I when I do something like this in my UTs:
> >
> > movie.actor << TestActor.new
>
> Is there some reason that you aren''t setting your fixtures to be
> "just right" from the beginning?  I don''t usually need
to do what
> your code does because the data is all associated before the Unit
> Test starts.
I''m doing some that don''t shouldn''t involve the
database (other than schema
analysis).  Using fixtures generally masks the details of what you''re 
testing, versus simply setting it in code.

At least, that''s my experience.

David