Iain Davis wrote: > Hello, > > Hope no one minds me just jumping in here with a question. > > I'm completely new to Ruby on Rails. I've been reading "Simply Rails > 2", and following their examples. I reached a point where the unit > tests were unexpectedly failing. Upon investigation, I discovered that > when Rails loads the fixtures, the foreign keys aren't being populated > with the foreign record's ID, but instead is simply 0 (discovered this > by looking at the tables manually). [...]
Slightly off topic, but: once you finish the tutorial, forget you ever heard of fixtures. For a whole lot of reasons, they represent a poor approach to testing. Use factories instead (I recommend Machinist) and your tests will be much less troublesome. 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.
