Hassan Schroeder wrote: > I'm investigating moving from fixtures to generated data (using > Machinist right now, though this question is probably generic to > any generator)
Good for you! I believe that fixtures are so poorly designed that they should be removed from the Rails core. > but I seem to be missing one essential point: > > If I use a fixture, I can test that e.g. > > - an object will be valid with a valid owner (user) id > - an object can't be valid with a nil owner id > - an object can't be valid with a non-existent/invalid owner id > > because I know what owner ids exist (and thus which don't exist). > > If I use a generator to create test objects and owners, I have no > idea what owner ids have been created, so how can I specify an > invalid one for test purposes? You probably don't need to. But a couple of ideas come to mind: * User.max(:id) + 10 * Create a User, store the ID, delete the User. Voilà, invalid ID. > > Or am I completely off-track in some way? TIA! > I think you are. validates_associated is silly and circularity-prone. You should be using foreign key constraints in the DB for this (the foreign_key_migrations and Foreigner plugins make this easy). And you don't need to test that in your app. > -- > Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ [email protected] > twitter: @hassan > > -- > > 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. Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- 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.
