Rails - Aug 2006 - Including ALL fixtures for a test

I am running into some issues with my functional tests because they need 
info from almost every single table in the database.  I have long 
laundry lists of fixture names to include on these test files and then I 
have to troubleshooot bizarre test failures because of a fixture that 
was not included.

So is there a way to simply include all fixtures in a test?  Something 
like:

  fixtures :all

would rock my socks, but doesn''t work.  Is there a way to include all 
fixtures?

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If you want all fixtures to be loaded for all tests specifiy them in
test/test_helper.rb

class Test::Unit::TestCase
  fixtures :people # all your fixtures here
end

Then you won''t need a call to fixtures in your test classes.

-Jonathan.

On 8/4/06, Alex Wayne <rubyonrails@beautifulpixel.com>
wrote:
> I am running into some issues with my functional tests because they need
> info from almost every single table in the database.  I have long
> laundry lists of fixture names to include on these test files and then I
> have to troubleshooot bizarre test failures because of a fixture that
> was not included.
>
> So is there a way to simply include all fixtures in a test?  Something
> like:
>
>   fixtures :all
>
> would rock my socks, but doesn''t work.  Is there a way to include
all
> fixtures?
>
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Jonathan Viney wrote:
> If you want all fixtures to be loaded for all tests specifiy them in
> test/test_helper.rb
> 
> class Test::Unit::TestCase
>   fixtures :people # all your fixtures here
> end
> 
> Then you won''t need a call to fixtures in your test classes.
> 
> -Jonathan.
Well not finding a satisfactory solution, I decided to roll my own 
plugin.

http://beautifulpixel.com/articles/2006/08/04/all-fixtures-plugin

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