fixtures are hard to maintain and impractical comprared to factories, factories are pluging/gems that create object dinamicly as needed so you can do thing like this
i have 100 users with that the factory will create on the fly 100 users and you can later change that 100 to 1000 . On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Robert Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > Joshua Muheim wrote: > > Thanks for your answer, Robert. > > > >> I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "web testing." > > > > I mean the integration tests, where one programs a browser to do some > > stuff, e.g. "open website", "enter stuff into form", "press submit", > > "assert pattern xy exists" etc. > > Cucumber has great integration with webrat and capybara for such > testing. > > >> Here are the various levels of testing that Rails supports (Test::Unit): > >> > >> 1. Model (Unit tests) > >> 2. Functional (Controller tests) > >> 3. Integration (Controller + View tests) > > > >> FIXTURES ARE BAD!!! > > > > You mean that the theory behind fixtures is bad (use predefined test > > data), or that the way Rails offers the use of fixtures is bad? > > I mean use factories instead of fixtures (as Rails defines the term > "fixtures"). > -- > 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]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- 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.
