2009/4/30 David Knorr <[email protected]> > > > > On Apr 30, 11:06 am, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have fixture data in froglets.yml > > > > In my functional test I specify fixtures :froglets > > > > I can then access the individual fixture values by froglets(:froglet1) > for > > example. > > > > I want to check the data in my index view so I want to iterate through > the > > froglets checking that the data is correctly formatted using something of > > the form > > froglets.each do |froglet| ... > > but this does not work as the froglets object appears to be an empty > array. > > > > I realise I can do this by iterating the database records instead but > this > > does not seem the right way to do it. > > > > I have googled without success. > > > > Suggestions will be much appreciated. > > I understand your skeptism, but eventually looping through the > database records *is* the right way: > > Froglet.find(:all).each do |froglet| > # ... > end > > Looping through the fixtures only is not possible. Even though it was, > it would be a bad idea since some of the records might have changed, > new records might have been added and so on. You should always be sure > to use the latest state of the database. :) >
I am happy to accept that I must do this, but I am not sure of the logic. Since this is running in a test then if the database has changed when the test is not expecting it then the test should fail. Colin > > -- > Best regards, > David Knorr > http://twitter.com/perplect > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
