Thanks Yves. Thats what happened when I found this. I has used model
generator and updated the migration manually. I will go through the code
and open a PR for model generator commenting out fixtures. Is it okey?

Thanks.

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 2:32 AM, Yves Senn <yves.s...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey
>
> The fixtures should satisfy not-null constraints if you specify everything
> through the generator.
> If you manipulate the migration directly, your fixtures won't be updated
> accordingly.
> I got bitten by this in the past. Especially because the model generator
> does not generate concrete
> test-cases making use of these fixtures. When you start writing your own
> you may end up with ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid errors
> which can feel out of context.
>
> I'd be fine with commenting out the fixtures when the model generator is
> used. Note that the scaffold generator does generate test-cases
> which use the fixtures.
>
> Cheers,
> -- Yves
>
> On Monday, November 17, 2014 4:31:40 AM UTC+1, Prathamesh Sonpatki wrote:
>>
>> Hi Colin,
>>
>> I was suggesting that can we comment them in the generators itself. So
>> that they will be present but commented. Obviously when we want to write
>> tests and use them, we have to go to that file and edit it. We have to do
>> it in any case, whether they are commented or not.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 3:39 AM, Colin Law <cla...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 16 November 2014 14:54, Prathamesh Sonpatki <cson...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hello all,
>>> >
>>> > A newly created fixture file by Rails generators contains some
>>> fixtures by
>>> > default with keys 'one' and 'two'.
>>> > If I add any null constraint on some column in that table and try to
>>> run
>>> > tests then it fails. Because Rails tries
>>> > to insert records with null values on columns having not-null
>>> constraint.
>>> >
>>> > What do you think about adding the fixtures through generators but
>>> > commenting them. So when I actually want
>>> > to use those fixtures, I will go into fixtures file and uncomment the
>>> > existing ones or add new ones.
>>> > Right now it becomes a little painful to see build failing just
>>> because of
>>> > those fixtures.
>>>
>>> Not sure what question you are asking, but to comment them out just
>>> put # at the front of each line.
>>>
>>> Anyway you are writing things the wrong way round, you should add or
>>> amend the tests to check the constraint functions as expected (which
>>> will cause the test to fail as the constraint has not been added yet)
>>> then add the constraint so that the tests work again.
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>
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