hi all,
trying my first foray into testing and having trouble with accessing
the fixture instance variable
built a test for my NewsRelease model.
have a news_releases.yml as a fixture with:
first:
id: 1
title: my first release
body: this is still my first test of a news release
publish: 0
date_publication: 2006-06-06 17:28:00
in news_release_test.rb, i have
def setup
@news_release = NewsRelease.find(1)
end
def test_create
assert_kind_of NewsRelease, @news_release
assert_equal @news_release["first"]["id"],
@news_release.id
end
and i receive:
"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.[]"
and i first tried (from the agile book)
def test_create
assert_kind_of NewsRelease, @news_release
assert_equal @first.id, @news_release.id
end
and i get:
test_create(NewsReleaseTest):
RuntimeError: Called id for nil, which would mistakenly be 4 -- if
you really wanted the id of nil, use object_id
so, finally -- what is the correct syntax for accessing the fixtures
in my tests?