rspec users - Jul 2009 - [RAILS] - 2.3.3 creating a sea of red

hello,

I''ve already asked via Rails channels on this and have received no
response, so I''m asking here in hopes someone has run into something
similar.

I updated to rails 2.3.3 yesterday, and now all of my specs are
failing with the following error:

Fixture::FormatError in ''PublishedGallery Methods#thumbnail should
delegate to its lead asset''
a YAML error occurred parsing /Users/mpd/timber/spec/fixtures/
galleries.yml. Please note that YAML must be consistently indented
using spaces. Tabs are not allowed. Please have a look at
http://www.yaml.org/faq.html
The exact error was:
  NoMethodError: undefined method `abstract_class?'' for Object:Class

A full stack trace (and other info like the list of system gems) is
available at: http://gist.github.com/151492

The real problem has nothing to do with YAML. I can go green right now
by changing RAILS_GEM_VERSION in environment.rb back to 2.3.2.

I''m sure this is due to some Rails change, but I can''t find
any info
about it. Only running my specs is broken, both via rake and the spec
command. I can use script/console with both test and development
environments with no problems, and the app looks to be running fine.
It just looks like a load-order problem somewhere, but I''m not sure
where to start debugging.

thanks

2009/7/21 mpd <mpd at particularplace.com>:
>
> I''m sure this is due to some Rails change, but I can''t
find any info
> about it. Only running my specs is broken, both via rake and the spec
> command. I can use script/console with both test and development
> environments with no problems, and the app looks to be running fine.
> It just looks like a load-order problem somewhere, but I''m not
sure
> where to start debugging.
I can''t really help, except to say that I''m also running Rails
2.3.3
and I''m *not* seeing this error.   I''m not running fixtures,
however
(I use Machinist) so that might help you pin it down.  Also, grepping
for the "abstract_class?" method shows that it''s defined in
ActiveRecord::Base.  You might try diffing between 2.3.2 and 2.3.3 on
whatever code loads fixtures for test cases; it might be that 2.3.3
does fixtures a little bit differently or something.


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