Fred, thank you very much. This was exactly the problem. But I admit that I'm still confused. Everything was created with the "generate" script which presumably uses the same rules. And when I go into the ruby console:
Loading development environment (Rails 2.2.2) >> "cache".pluralize => "caches" So it seems to get this correct even without the initializer. How did it get it wrong when looking for the model class? On May 9, 3:04 pm, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 9, 6:33 pm, Brian <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On May 9, 1:18 pm, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > Does removing the structure: line make a difference ? > > > > Fred > > > It does, but then I get similar errors loading other fixtures. Right > > now, my cache fixture only has the two entries generated when I > > created the model, but I'd like to add more meaningful test data in > > there to start writing my unit tests. References to structures will > > be fairly important. > > ah, I know what's happening. The default pluralization rules rails has > screw up cache/caches, so when rails loads the fixtures it tries to > look for the wrong model class so the fixture data is inserted without > the structure having being turned into structure_id > Adding an inflector rule should do the trick eg stick > > ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect| > inflect.irregular 'cache', 'caches' > end > > in an initializer. > > Fred --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
