Rails - Feb 2006 - Functional test problem with environments variables

Hi guys,

i have been experiencing this problem once i put in some constant 
declarations in /config/environments/development.rb. I declared it very 
normally like this :

USER_DETAILS = {
:name => ''abc'',
:password => ''123''}

it works in the controller and when i run the application, i managed to 
get the values out from the development.rb by using some statements like 
@user = [''USER_DETAILS''].name.

But when i code the functional test, even the most simple test like 
test_index in user_controller_test, it failed and result in this error :
NameError: uninitialized constant USER_DETAILS

inside the test_index is like this:
class UserControllerTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
  def setup
    @user = User.new
  end
  def test_index
    get :index
    assert_response :success
  end
end

Is there anything that went wrong? Is there any files i need to set to 
tell rails to go to the config file to get the constant USER_DETAILS? 
Thanks for any help anyone can provide.

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On Feb 26, 2006, at 8:15 PM, bao lee wrote:
> i have been experiencing this problem once i put in some constant
> declarations in /config/environments/development.rb. I declared it  
> very
> normally like this :
>
> USER_DETAILS = {
> :name => ''abc'',
> :password => ''123''}
>
> it works in the controller and when i run the application, i  
> managed to
> get the values out from the development.rb by using some statements  
> like
> @user = [''USER_DETAILS''].name.
>
> But when i code the functional test, even the most simple test like
> test_index in user_controller_test, it failed and result in this  
> error :
> NameError: uninitialized constant USER_DETAILS
>
> inside the test_index is like this:
Development and Test are different environments...

Put it in top level environment.rb

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-- Tom Mornini