>> How do I actually use real, pre-existing Rails fixtures, the same as >> the unit tests use? For familiarity?
What I was missing is the regular use of fixtures as in rspec or test unit, like so: u = users(:bob) u.email = "aaa" u.should_not be_valid This link > > http://wiki.github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/fixtures > described how to get fixtures loaded for the entire suite, so that you can say: u = User.find(1) or u = User.find_by_name("Bob") this is kind of a drag, if you have a well formed fixture file with symbolic names, etc. So I came up with this (which was developed and tested in Cucumber gem version 0.2.3, and I haven't tried it yet with the latest 0.3.9): Add this to your env file: Fixtures.reset_cache fixtures_folder = File.join(RAILS_ROOT, 'test', 'fixtures') fixtures = Dir[File.join(fixtures_folder, '*.yml')].map {|f| File.basename(f, '.yml') } fixtures << Dir[File.join(fixtures_folder, '*.csv')].map {|f| File.basename(f, '.csv') } # If your fixture files are named differently from the classes they refer to, # you also need to do this: # # class_table_mappings = {:table_name_in_db => class_name} # Fixtures.create_fixtures(fixtures_folder, fixtures, class_table_mappings) # # otherwise: # This will populate the test database tables Fixtures.create_fixtures(fixtures_folder, fixtures) # The following will define methods that can access symbolic fixture names, # as in users(:bob) World do |world| (class << world; self; end).class_eval do @@fixture_cache = {} fixtures.each do |table_name| table_name = table_name.to_s.tr('.', '_') define_method(table_name) do |*fixture_symbols| @@fixture_cache[table_name] ||= {} instances = fixture_symbols.map do |fixture_symbol| if fix = Fixtures.cached_fixtures(ActiveRecord::Base.connection, table_name)[fixture_symbol.to_s] @@fixture_cache[table_name][fixture_symbol] ||= fix.find # find model.find's the instance else raise StandardError, "No fixture with name '#{fixture_symbol}' found for table '#{table_name}'" end end instances.size == 1 ? instances.first : instances end end end world end -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
