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Hello all, I''m having some issues with my test fixtures and unit tests and am hoping somebody has an idea about how to fix it. Background: I have a table in my legacy database called tp_approval_step. For this table I have a fixture called tp_approval_step.yml I have a model called ApprovalProcessStep that uses set_table_name ''tp_approval_step'' In my test file,

I''m stymied at how to create a fixture that establishes a has_many :through relationship. I''ve watched the railscast at: http://media.railscasts.com/videos/081_fixtures_in_rails_2.mov ... but that''s for HABTM relationships. I''ve read: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/145676 but that ultimately doesn''t answer any question. So with no further ado:

Hey Everyone, I have a function test the is failing (despite the fact the function actually works in the application). I was looking for some debug advice on how to find my problem. Here is the test: def test_should_delete_word assert_equal ''published'', words(:one).status debugger delete :destroy, :id => words(:one).to_param assert_equal

Hello, $ ruby script/generate model balance plus:integer minus:integer equal:integer $ cat app/models/balance.rb class Balance < ActiveRecord::Base def save self.equal = self.plus - self.minus super end end $ cat test/fixtures/balances.yml _10-1: plus: 10 minus: 1 $ rake db:fixtures:load $ sqlite3 db/development.sqlite3 sqlite> select * from balances; //=>

Is there any way I can require a small set of data be in the test database before any tests are run? (unit, functional, integration, cucumber, etc) Any way besides using fixtures, that is. Overload a rake task? Modify test_helper? Any ideas? (Simple Case: I have to have a minimal set of user roles defined before any users can be created) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Hello, Hope no one minds me just jumping in here with a question. I''m completely new to Ruby on Rails. I''ve been reading "Simply Rails 2", and following their examples. I reached a point where the unit tests were unexpectedly failing. Upon investigation, I discovered that when Rails loads the fixtures, the foreign keys aren''t being populated with the foreign

I am working my way through Agile web development with rails and I''m in the testing chapter. when I run the following test(or any other test) I''m new and not sure where to start looking. require ''test_helper'' class ProductTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase # Replace this with your real tests. test "the truth" do assert true end end I

Hey, What way is the best to do imports of CSV files?

A lot has been posted about validation issues with associations, however, I don''t see this issue addressed specifically. ex: class Foo has_one :schedule, :dependent => :destroy validates_presence_of :schedule class Schedule belongs_to :foo validates_presence_of :foo_id this creates a circular dependency that breaks test frameworks like pickle and machinist. At first I was

hello to all I been working on this from past few days. .I am talking about separate migration for each one of the multiple database that a single rails application has connection with.I know that rails can work with multiple databases but what with migrations for e.g my main rails application has a connection to two databases 1> main_development 2> secondary_development Know suppose i

Hi everyone. I''m having a bit of a problem with an application I''m currently developing with Rails 1.2.3 and PostgreSQL, attempting to use test-first development. Here''s the scenario: * I have the usual three databases, with migrations. Testing has been working beautifully. * I need to store geographic data, so I add PostGIS to all three databases (along with

Hello, I''ve got a got a question about how and where to load initial data that is necessary in order to make the website work (menu structure, page contents, ...) I know it''s preference and everybody can do it as s/he wants but I just wanna know if there''s any convention or something like that. First of all, how do I normally load necessary data as mentioned above?

Is there a way to preload common data made by factory_girl to speed up tests instead of recreating these common data at the beginning of every test. For example, I want to have 10 users premade at the beginning of every test. I found this http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/factory_data_preloader But the page says that this plugin does not "play nice" with autotest. But I use

i think there ara two ways of relate products and categories , basically i want to fix one product(e.g hp dv7....) to some categories (notebook,17"notebooks...) i made a table named categorization(incuding category_id,product_id fields) then in models i write these codes below class Product < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :categories, :through => :categorizations

Hi: I am using authlogic, and following railscast tutorial. I am running into this error code with the password confirmation. authlogic password confirmation is too short Has anyone experienced this error? I need your help. Thanks in advance for your help.

I am creating forum application which needs usage of acts_as_list or acts_as_tree or acts_as_nested_set. I am unable to decide among these. please could some one recommend from their experience? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hey all, im not sure where to set a default value if a textfield is empty? For now i do it in the controller, and check if the submitted parameter is blank. But this seems not to be the best solution... Thanks for your help! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

hi, im totally a newbie so i have got no idea whatsoever why i got this error, the thing that happend was i was doing a little coding along with the lynda.com rails series that i got this error. well as u can see this is the error which i get on terminal, but there is another one in browser too which says : "NoMethodError in AdminController#index " u can see it in the picture here :

I''m trying to display a drop-down menu by using an instance variable from a model. THIS WORKS... <div class="field"> <%= f.label :duration %><br /> <%= f.select ("duration", {"30 minutes" => "30", "1 hour" => "60"}, :prompt => "Select") %> </div> THIS DOESN''T

Hello, I''m using escape_javascript to return a partial to the browser via ajax. Something like: $("#inject").html("<%=escape_javascript(render :partial =>"feed/ index")%>"); Problem is escape_javascript ends up outputing all kinds of wasted space like \n\n\n\n\n \n Is there anyway in Rails to escape_javascript more