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Hello, I searched unit test for Rails on internet, but all the results are for testing Rails APPLICATION generated by Rails. But I think Rails itself needs unit test, too. I need to make sure that all APIs/methods of Rails work fine in different scenarios. I didn''t see any unit test files in the Rails package. Does anyone know how to unit test Rails itself? Thanks a lot.

I found a bug in ActiveRecord. Being a good netizen, I thought I would write a test to illustrate the bug, fix it, and then submit a patch to the maintainers. However, I can''t run the AR tests. I followed the instructions in RUNNING_UNIT_TESTS but it generates an error immediately /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.2/test cremes$ ruby -I "connections/native_mysql" active_schema_mysql.rb ./../lib/active_record/base.rb:246: undefined method `cattr_accessor'' for ActiveRecord::Base:Class (NoMethodErro...

With the big One-Oh on it''s way, I''m thinking we should perhaps start to work on the documentation some more. The RDoc format is perfectly fine, and does its job beautifully, but I think it doesn''t quite reflect the whizbang value that rails has, especially for newcomers. As one who has looked at the api docs almost daily for several months, I feel quite comfortable