Why would you want to do *either*? If you want your fixtures to have different data, just change them.
In any case, the second way is preferable; I'm not 100% sure that the first way won't re-instantiate the fixture and zorch your changes. --Matt Jones On Oct 11, 5:15 am, Joshua Muheim <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all > > When creating unit tests, I wondered whether I should rather use the > following... > > people(:sam).name = "Sammy" > people(:sam).city = "Blah" > > ...or rather the following form: > > @sam = people(:sam) > @sam.name = "Sammy" > @sam.city = "Blah" > > Thanks > Josh > -- > Posted viahttp://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

