Frederick Cheung wrote: > On Aug 26, 5:26�pm, Tomasz Romanowski <[email protected]> wrote: >> I can't say I really know what I'm doing here but when I derive from a >> base unit testcase rather ActiveSupport testcase I seem to get what I >> want. Not sure what I'm losing by not deriving from ActiveSupport >> testcase. > > ActiveSupport::TestCase is what gets you the activerecord fixture > stuff (eg the fixture accessor methods). It's also the thing that > loads fixtures. ActionController::TestCase (which derives from > ActiveSupport::TestCase) handles the boiler plate of setting up the > test request for you, and creates the get/put/... methods you use in > functional tests. > > I'm not entirely sure what you mean by the table alias being ignored, > but if you mean that the fixtures ignore the set_table_name in your > models that's because fixtures don't work that way - the fixture file > name should be the name of the table, not the name of the model
...which is another of the many, many reasons not to ever use fixtures. Use factories instead. > > Fred 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.
