On Feb 9, 2009, at 4:47 PM, Brent Miller wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've just hit a snag, and I'm hoping somebody out there can help. > > I'm working on an app that uses some legacy tables. One of them > doesn't > have a column named "id" so I've got the following: > > class Student > set_primary_key 'pidm' > alias_attribute :id, :pidm > end
I'm not sure if it changes your situation, but you shouldn't need that alias_attribute. Just use id and ActiveRecord should use your real primary key column under the covers. -Rob > > > When I'm testing, I need 5 student fixtures. I have them defined like > this one: > > john_doe: > status: student > department: > alumni: > title: > applicant: > student_status: > staff: > pref_first_name: > faculty: > applicant_status: > year_in_school: freshman > chair: > pidm: 12345678 > reed_id: L12345 > program: > middle_initial: > first_name: John > student: Y > login: doej > last_name: Doe > email: [email protected] > > When I load the fixtures into my test database with "rake > db:fixtures:load RAILS_ENV=test" everything works great. However, > when > I run my test suite, and rails loads the fixtures, I get a big > problem: > three of the fixtures aren't loading with their pidm (id) correctly. > All three load with a pidm of 91, which is problematic since it breaks > any associations involving that primary key. > > The two other fixtures load ok, though, which makes me very confused. > > I've played around with the data differences between the fixtures, and > futzing the non-pidm data doesn't seem to do anything. > > Has anybody encountered this? Any advice? > > Thanks! > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
