Rails - Jan 2006 - Default unit tests failing?

I''ve got a strange issue.  My default unit tests are failing for two
models.  I
haven''t changed _anything_ in the test.  Here''s an example:

Output:
  1) Error:
test_truth(ShippingCostTypeTest):
NoMethodError: You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!
You might have expected an instance of Array.
The error occured while evaluating nil.find
   
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/
lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:456:in
`shipping_cost_types''
    test/unit/shipping_cost_type_test.rb:8:in `test_truth''



Fixture: 
# Read about fixtures at http://ar.rubyonrails.org/classes/Fixtures.html
by_amount:
  id: 1
  name: amount
  code: AMT
by_quantity:
  id: 2
  name: Quantity
  code: QTY

Model:

class ShippingCostType < ActiveRecord::Base
end

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So, as you can tell, I''m _mighty_ perplexed.

Can anyone offer me some help?

Thanks much,
-jon

Jon wrote:
> I''ve got a strange issue.  My default unit tests are failing for
two
> models.  I
> haven''t changed _anything_ in the test.  Here''s an
example:
> 
> Output:
>   1) Error:
> test_truth(ShippingCostTypeTest):
> NoMethodError: You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!
> You might have expected an instance of Array.
> The error occured while evaluating nil.find
> 
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/
> lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:456:in
> `shipping_cost_types''
>     test/unit/shipping_cost_type_test.rb:8:in `test_truth''
> 
I''m having exactly the same problem/error message when trying to run a
basic test.  The dev machine is running Windows XP Pro, Ruby 1.82.15,
Rails 1.0.

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Jon, here''s how I got I working on mine. I added a setup method:

def setup
  @game = Game.find(1)
end

Then changed the default test_truth method to
def test_truth
  assert_kind_of Game, @game
end

Of course switch out the variables to, I guess, @shipping_cost_type and 
such for your test.

Jon wrote:
> I''ve got a strange issue.  My default unit tests are failing for
two
> models.  I
> haven''t changed _anything_ in the test.  Here''s an
example:
> 
> Output:
>   1) Error:
> test_truth(ShippingCostTypeTest):
> NoMethodError: You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!
> You might have expected an instance of Array.
> The error occured while evaluating nil.find
> 
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/
> lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:456:in
> `shipping_cost_types''
>     test/unit/shipping_cost_type_test.rb:8:in `test_truth''
> 
> 
> 
> Fixture:
> # Read about fixtures at http://ar.rubyonrails.org/classes/Fixtures.html
> by_amount:
>   id: 1
>   name: amount
>   code: AMT
> by_quantity:
>   id: 2
>   name: Quantity
>   code: QTY
> 
> Model:
> 
> class ShippingCostType < ActiveRecord::Base
> end
> 
> -----
> 
> So, as you can tell, I''m _mighty_ perplexed.
> 
> Can anyone offer me some help?
> 
> Thanks much,
> -jon

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