Rails - Aug 2006 - Testing fails with fixtures not when invoked directly

I have three files organization.rb, company.rb, and department.rb.  I want
to ensure the department always has a company

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

class OrganizationTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
  fixtures :organizations

def setup
   @smo = organizations(:smo)
  end

def test_department_company_defaults_to_parent
    org = Department.new(:name => ''company'',:cost_code
=> ''123'', :parent_id
=> organizations(:root_dept))
    assert org.valid?
    assert org.company_id = organizations(:root_dept).company_id
  end

end


This fails when loading the fixtures file from rake but works if I do the
test by itself
ruby test/unit/test_organization.rb  => this works

rake => fails

D:\workspace\directory>rake
(in D:/workspace/directory)
c:/ruby/bin/ruby -Ilib;test "c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1
/lib/rake/rake_test_load
er.rb" "test/unit/organization_test.rb"
"test/unit/phone_test.rb"
Loaded suite c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1
/lib/rake/rake_test_loader
Started
EEE
Finished in 0.14 seconds.

  1) Error:
test_department_company_defaults_to_parent(OrganizationTest):
NoMethodError: You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!
You might have expected an instance of Array.
The error occurred while evaluating nil.[]

D:/workspace/directory/config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:4
81:in `organizations''
    ./test/unit/organization_test.rb:65:in
`test_department_company_defaults_to_parent''

  2) Error:
test_department_company_defaults_to_parent(OrganizationTest):
NoMethodError: You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!
You might have expected an instance of Array.
The error occurred while evaluating nil.-

D:/workspace/directory/config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/transactions.
rb:107:in `decrement_open_transactions''

D:/workspace/directory/config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:5
45:in `teardown''


********** Files are as below ***********

****** organizations.yml **

smo:
  id: 1
  name: SLC Systems Management Office
  cost_code: 8211
  routing:
  type: Department
  company_id: 4

faa:
  id: 4
  name: Federal Aviation Administration
  type: Company

root_dept:
  id: 5
  name: root
  type: Department
  company_id: 4

child1:
  id: 6
  name: child1
  type: Department
  company_id: 4
  parent_id: 5

child2:
  id: 7
  name: child2
  type: Department
  company_id: 4
  parent_id: 5

** organization.rb


# == Schema Information
# Schema version: 1
#
# Table name: organizations
#
#  id         :integer(11)   not null, primary key
#  name       :string(255)   default(), not null
#  routing    :string(10)
#  cost_code  :string(10)
#  url        :string(255)
#  phone      :string(14)
#  fax        :string(14)
#  parent_id  :string(255)
#  type       :string(255)
#  company_id :string(255)
#

class Organization < ActiveRecord::Base

  validates_presence_of :name

end

** company.rb **

class Company < Organization

  has_many :departments

end

** department.rb **

class Department < Organization

  acts_as_tree
 # acts_as_list :scope => :parent_id

  validates_presence_of :company_id

  belongs_to :company

  before_validation :set_default_company_from_parent

  protected

  def set_default_company_from_parent
    self.company_id ||= self.parent.company_id if self.parent
  end

end
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We''re having the same problem.  Actually it''s more accurate to
say we''re NOW
having the same problem, after months of development.

Do you our anyone have any thoughts on this occurrence?

I still have this problem, any ideas?

Thanks in advance

Dominic

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From: Brittain <scott_brittain@hotmail.com>
Date: Aug 14, 2006 9:56 PM
Subject: [Rails] Re: Testing fails with fixtures not when invoked directly
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We''re having the same problem.  Actually it''s more accurate to
say we''re NOW
having the same problem, after months of development.

Do you our anyone have any thoughts on this occurrence?

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On 8/17/06, Dominic Sisneros <dsisnero@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I still have this problem, any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Dominic
Do you by any chance use SQL Server 2000?

Raf

-- 
http://www.bdcsoftware.com" - Automotive CRM

I am using MySql on a windows development box.

On 8/17/06, Rafael Szuminski <raf1hh@gmail.com>
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> On 8/17/06, Dominic Sisneros <dsisnero@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Dominic
>
> Do you by any chance use SQL Server 2000?
>
> Raf
>
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> http://www.bdcsoftware.com" - Automotive CRM
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Dominic, sorry to say, nothing has changed.  We''re also using MySQL on
a
windows box, rails 1.1.6.

The errors seem to indicate the fixture isn''t loading (complains of
records
with ID=xyz missing, even though they''re in the fixtures), but
otherwise, no
new info.

I''ve seen this happen before. I *think* it was caused by having a setup
method declared in both test/test_helper.rb and in your test class... but I
could be wrong.

-Jonathan.

On 8/15/06, Brittain <scott_brittain@hotmail.com>
wrote:
>
> We''re having the same problem.  Actually it''s more
accurate to say we''re
> NOW
> having the same problem, after months of development.
>
> Do you our anyone have any thoughts on this occurrence?
>
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