On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Doug Bryant
<doug+rspecu...@netinlet.com> wrote:
> I'm currently running into the same issue and can find very little about it
> on the interwebs - i.e. an individual test run with `script/spec` works fine
> but the same test without any code changes fails when run as part of the
> suite via `rake spec`
> This issue seemed to start out of the blue. Some background and details...
> Fixtures don't seem to be loading properly when run as part of the suite.
> When my Driver model tries to save, it runs a validation testing that the
> zip code entered is valid (i.e. exists in the ZipsTerritory rating table).
> I have the :zips_territories fixture declared in the tests with enough data
> in the fixture for the test to pass. The spec runs fine when executed with
> `script/spec` but fails when run as part of the test suite `rake spec`. The
> zips_territory fixture is declared properly and in before(:each) in the
> tests, a driver is created with FactoryGirl via a call
> like Factory.create(:driver). The callstack indicates the test is failing
> while FactoryGirl is trying to create the model. Also, for a given
> developer, the same set of tests fail due to this issue consistently, but
> the tests which fail differ across different developers.
> These tests had been running fine as a suite for almost two years.
> In trying to debug this, I stumbled across some interesting behavior. If in
> the before(:each) filter on the failing tests, I printed out a log message
> which ultimately executed "ZipsTerritory.count". After I did this, the
> tests would pass as part of a suite. Needing a quick fix and not having
> time to debug the issue further, I just did the following in the
> spec_helper.rb file...
>>
>> config.before(:each) do
>>
>> Rails.logger.warn "ZipsTerritory.count == #{ZipsTerritory.count}"
>>
>> end
>
> This worked fine for about a week before the issue popped back up again.
> I can't think of anything which changed in the codebase which would have
> triggered this problem. The app has been running rails 2.3.8 for several
> months. We had been using rspec 1.3.0 and rspec-rails 1.3.2 for several
> months. (sidenote: rspec 1.3.1 & rspec-rails 1.3.3 seem to have some sort
> of other bug which fails to properly call a method on a child class and
> somehow gets delegated to the parent class - not present in 1.3.0 & 1.3.2
> rspec/rspec-rails).
Example please?
> I've tried several version of FactoryGirl and all of
> those seem to trigger the issue too.
> My spec_helper.rb is: https://gist.github.com/0d3ea01ffe4a15f4b2b3
> Does anything stand out? Has anybody else experienced this? Any ideas?
> Thanks, Doug
I made one comment on the gist, but I think it's unrelated.
You say nothing changed that you _think_ would cause this, but
something must have changes somewhere. What _did_ change? Any new gems
or upgraded gems in the environment?
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 6:04 AM, Rob Aldred <rob.ald...@setfiremedia.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, I've been trying to work this out for a while, im convinced its some
>> local db configuration specific to my machine.
>> When running `rake spec` 14 of my test fail all of them in the user_spec
>> generated by restful auth.
>> The error for all the failing tests is:
>> ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound
>> Couldn't find User with ID=1
>> Iv put some debugger lines and at the start of some of the tests it would
>> appear that the users fixture is not being loaded when running the full
>> suite
>> If I run the specific test with the spec
>> binary `spec spec/modes/user_spec.rb` all the fixtures are loaded and pass as expected.
>> Further more, the error is only apparent when using mysql for the test
>> db...
>> When I use sqlite for the test db the tests pass when running the whole
>> suite and the specific test...
>> Weird... I'd like to know if anyone else has experienced this and if
>> anyone has any pointers
>> as to why the fixtures are not loaded when using mysql as the test db.
>> Many thanks
>> Rob
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