Rails - Nov 2005 - How are fixtures loaded?

I''ve been having a strange issue with some fixtures being loaded that
I don''t think should be.  Anyway, I took the entire fixtures directive
out to see what the problem might be.  It turns out that the fixtures
are being loaded even if there''s no fixtures directive. 
Here''s the
entire test file.

require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../test_helper''

class TicketTest < Test::Unit::TestCase

  def test_create
    t = Ticket.find(1)
    assert_kind_of Ticket, t
    puts t.inspect
  end
end

I would think that I should get some error, because the tickets table
is never populated, thus there should be no record with id=1.  However
this runs just fine, and shows the object that''s specified in my
tickets.yml fixtures file.

I thought fixtures don''t get loaded unless you specify them with the
fixtures directive.  Obviously I''m wrong about that...but it''s
the
behavior I''d like to have, so how can I get that?  Rails 0.14.3, Ruby
1.8.2, the test_helper.rb is the default with
use_transactional_fixtures=true and use_instantiated_fixtures=false.

Pat

Is it possible that your data is already in the table BEFORE you run your
test?  That is, the test is not loading the fixture, but the test is using
data that was in the table at the beginning?

I''ve made this mistake a few times- if you don''t specify that
a fixture
should be loaded, then the test framework isn''t going to do anything to
the
table- it''s not going to load any data, but it''s also not
going to clear any
pre-existing data.

On 11/30/05, Pat Maddox <pergesu-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
> I''ve been having a strange issue with some fixtures being loaded
that
> I don''t think should be.  Anyway, I took the entire fixtures
directive
> out to see what the problem might be.  It turns out that the fixtures
> are being loaded even if there''s no fixtures directive. 
Here''s the
> entire test file.
>
> require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../test_helper''
>
> class TicketTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
>
>   def test_create
>     t = Ticket.find(1)
>     assert_kind_of Ticket, t
>     puts t.inspect
>   end
> end
>
> I would think that I should get some error, because the tickets table
> is never populated, thus there should be no record with id=1.  However
> this runs just fine, and shows the object that''s specified in my
> tickets.yml fixtures file.
>
> I thought fixtures don''t get loaded unless you specify them with
the
> fixtures directive.  Obviously I''m wrong about that...but
it''s the
> behavior I''d like to have, so how can I get that?  Rails 0.14.3,
Ruby
> 1.8.2, the test_helper.rb is the default with
> use_transactional_fixtures=true and use_instantiated_fixtures=false.
>
> Pat
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