On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Harry Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm new to rspec and working on catching up my app with rspec testing.
> I'm running OSX 10.5.5 with Rails 2.1.0 and Rspec 1.1.8.
> Most things I've tried work except loading fixtures. I setup a describe
> block for the model as
>
> require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper')
> require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) +
> '/../helpers/motions_spec_helper')
> require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) +
> '/../helpers/votes_spec_helper')
>
> describe "description" do
>
> fixtures :motions
>
> it "reads from fixtures" do
>
> put "#{motions(:one).inspect}"
> end
> end
>
> I receive @controller is nil: make sure you set it in your test's setup
> method.
> as the error when running the example test in rspec. I know it is
> finding the fixture because it balked at duplicate id entries with
> SQLite. I fixed that and now receive the above message.
>
> I tried various setting changes in spec_helper.rb but nothing seems to
> work.
> After searching around I tried various terminal entries like
> rake spec:db:fixtures:load
> but no change.
>
> I would appreciate some assistance here to get this off the ground.
It's being you are calling "put" and I believe you want "puts". The
method "put" is a Rails testing method which tries to invoke a PUT
http request on a given controller action. That is why you are getting
@controller is nil.
--
Zach Dennis
http://www.continuousthinking.com
http://www.mutuallyhuman.com
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