[LRUG] Test does not load many to many fixture

[Riccardo Tacconi]

Rails > 2.2 does not load HABTM fixtures. They can specify as:

sally:
  roles: admin, editor
  ...

fred:
  roles: basic
  ...

However I was able to force roles_users.yml with:

ENV['FIXTURES'] ||= 'roles_users'


On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Riccardo Tacconi <rtacconi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Graham,
>
> I tried to add the fixtures in the test case without success. Rails guide, as you noticed is wrong and very incomplete. I have found a blog post with fixture tips:
>
> http://techpolesen.blogspot.com/2007/04/rails-fixture-tips.html
>
> I created a rake task to clean the test DB from data, but I have to disable foreign keys checks. I configured the fixtures to laod in my environment.rb in this way:
>
> ENV['FIXTURES'] ||= 'categories, departments, users, teams, roles, roles_users, videos'
>
> but I am still not able to load roles_users
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Graham Ashton <graham at effectif.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 10 Feb 2010, at 11:30, Riccardo Tacconi wrote:
>>
>> > Do I have to specify somewhere how to load this fixture?
>>
>> As I recall (it's been a very long time since I've used fixtures) you need to mention which fixtures to use in your test case. I just checked the Rails guide on the subject though [1] which claims that Rails will load all fixtures by default. This suggests that my memory is failing. Loading everything seems a bit daft; it could take ages.
>>
>> Have you tried adding something like this to the top of your test case?
>>
>>  fixtures :roles, :users, :roles_users
>>
>> Alternatively, try factory_girl or blueprint, which are much less pain to work with.
>>
>> [1] http://guides.rubyonrails.org/testing.html#the-low-down-on-fixtures
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