similar to: Fixtures vs Fixture class, what is the intended purpose?

Sorry about the very long email, but this is a hairy topic that''s been annoying me for some time and I decided to try to do something about. Also, if you got this twice, I apologize too, but it didn''t seem to have successfully gone out the first time. Background: ---------- I''ve been dealing with Rails for about a year and a half now. I''ve been using

Just spent a good bit of time trying to figure out why I couldn''t get fixtures to work in a plugin test. I was including ActiveRecord::TestFixtures into ActiveSupport::TestCase and trying to get fixtures to automatically reload for every test like regular Rails tests. The problem was in the first line of ActiveRecord::TestFixtures.setup_fixtures: return unless defined?(ActiveRecord)

Hi, I have problem accessing the testfixture. The values from the YML-Fixture-File are correctly written into database, but accessing the fixture is impossible. It is always nil. Is anything wrong with this test? class MyModelTest < Test::Unit::TestCase fixtures :my_model def test_simple a = MyModel.find(@my_model["first"].id) # Accessing @my_model is impossible ...

I''m following Agile Edition 1. On page 148 it suggests using instance variables named after the fixture, for example: assert_equal @version_control_book.id, @product.id When I introduce this type of instance variable into my test, I get the following error: 1) Error: test_not_owner(GroupTest): RuntimeError: Called id for nil, which would mistakenly be 4 -- if you really wanted the

Just released a new version of the _Managed Fixtures_ plugin, previously known as _Export Fixtures_. The name change comes with some added functionality for managing the fixtures, primarily with two new import tasks for importing specific Models or all of them within the test/fixtures directory. Both new import tasks take the exported fixtures, and allow you to directly import one, or all of

= Description This plugin is a super lightweight tool used to export data into the test/fixtures directory. So if you want to export all your data from your production server into your development environment, this will simplify the process without having to load up your database manager. [%] rake db:fixtures:export_all RAILS_ENV=development [%] rake db:fixtures:load = INSTALLATION

Hi, My test case has two fixtures and eight methods. But one of the eight methods need one more fixture. How do I solve this? Okay, I put the additional fixture in common place so every method has additional access to the additional fixture. The problem is the additional fixture depend on that two fixtures (foreign key). When I run the test, it complains something like this:

Maybe I''m not getting fixtures, but... I''m having problems as I start using fixtures in functional tests. Data is left in my test database after running functional tests. Not the data created by the test-method (I''m using transactional fixtures), but data from the fixtures themselves. Fixture loading will delete & reload the data again when the test is re-run, but

Is there a good way to get an arbitrary fixture from the generated fixture function? I need a way to get one of my fixtures, I don''t care which one. It doesn''t need to be random and could always return the same fixture. This is part of a support function for custom assertions and it doesn''t know what class its working on, let alone what fixture names are possible.

I have a very simple problem. I can''t seem to access a the fixture by name I have a sites.yml with: simple_site: id: 1 name: demo description: A demo site created_on: 2005-10-25 00:00:00 updated_on: 2005-10-25 00:00:00 And I have a test class as: require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../test_helper'' class SiteTest < Test::Unit::TestCase fixtures

I''m trying to write a test like the one at the bottom of page 148 in Agile Rails. I''m using rails 1.0 I''ve created the fixture correctly I''m pretty sure because the test database table is being populated per the fixture. I have what I think is a simple unit test: ========= require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../test_helper'' class CaseTest

OK, I know I''m doing something bone-headed, but I can''t for the life of me figure it out. I''ve read the test fixtures Rdoc about eight dozen times, and it says (to me) that if I have a YAML fixture file, dogs.yml that looks like this: fido: id: 1 breed: Terrier fifi: id: 2 breed: Poodle Then I can include fixtures :dogs in my functional test, and

I''m running into a problem where one of my fixtures uses ERb to get an id for a row that isn''t created yet. In setup, I create that row. Since it appears that fixtures are loaded before setup is run, that''s a problem. I can''t put the row creation in a fixture - its part of the business rules of one of my models. Anyone know how to load a fixture manually

Hello all, I have a fixture under folder-grouping : ./fixtures/foo/bars.yml I need to reference the data in bars during functional test. methods.sort reveals ''foo/bars'' as a method in the current context (breakpointed), but I don''t know how to reference a method called ''foo/bars''. - OR - how should i reference the fixture when I''m using

Hi, I want to add the basic model record create tests for my rails app as in the "Agile Web Development with Rails" example: i.e. (header stuff and boring repitition missed) def test_create assert_kind_of Requirement, requirements(:requirement_1) assert_equal <at>requirements["requirement_1"]["name"], requirements(:requirement_1).name end Now I''m

Just curious if anything special needs to be done to use the Rails fixture scenarios plugin(http://code.google.com/p/fixture-scenarios/) with rspec? Would I just create the "scenarios" inside the spec/fixtures dir, as opposed to the test/fixtures dir? Thanks, Steve

Hi, I am currently coding my tests and I made a lot of fixture files. To make everything simple (I thought), I didnt put the ID in the fixture, insted when I needed to put the id of something, I used Class.find_by_name "name of the item to find". When I use the file to import data in my migration everything is fine. But when I use the same files for my unit test, there is a

Hello. I need to run a single fixture on my server as part of an update to my application. I noticed that the other tables lost their data when I run "rake db:fixtures:load". How do I make it so that only a single fixture runs and ignores the rest?

Hi folks around, hope you could help me with my problem. I have a porblem while testing my Acts_as_Tree behavior with fixtures. Because all data in the fixture file will be commited at the end the entries I want to map my tree like structure to will not be present at this point. Due to this I get a foreign key constraints fails from the database. Is there any way to solve this problem? Here

Ticket 4052 (http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/4052) just came through trac, which introduces the need for a better way to access fixtures. I believe the basic problem is the same as 3935 (http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/3935) in that the accessor method which is constructed by the fixture call can''t infer the class name from the table name. The band-aid in 3935 was to allow you to