2009/8/26 E. Litwin <[email protected]>: > > You are describing different test cases. > > In most of my applications, I test how the application works when > there are 0, 1 or >1 records for a given scenario. > Those are three separate tests in my application. Fixtures/factories > are just used to setup the conditions for the test.
I think the OP understands that, the question is how to use fixtures to load different numbers of records to the table for different tests. Colin > On Aug 25, 6:26 pm, bill walton <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Patrick, >> >> On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 13:38 -0400, Patrick Doyle wrote: >> > Hello, >> > I just ran into a bug in my application in which the behavior differed >> > depending on whether there was a single element in a particular table >> > or multiple elements in the table. Right after I fixed the bug, I >> > thought to myself, "I wonder how I could have structured a functional >> > test to detect this?" >> >> > For my simple application, I am perfectly happy to use fixtures and >> > ActionController::TestCase. I have a fixture with multiple records in >> > it. If I wanted to test my application with a single record, and then >> > test it again with multiple records, how could I do that? >> >> Fixtures are not the only way to load your test database. You can do >> whatever you want along the lines of db prep in your individual test >> methods. >> >> HTH, >> Bill > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
