daze wrote in post #970203:
> Here's my issue: running ruby -I test test/unit/something_test.rb for
> each of my unit tests works perfectly.
> However, running rake test:units brings errors in all of them - some
> object becomes nil for some reason.

And what object is that?

>
> Why might this be happening?
>
> Specifics: the object that is successfully not nil when I run the unit
> tests one-by-one but becomes nil when I do rake test:units is defined
> like this...
>
> klass = self.name.gsub(/Test$/, "").constantize
> instance = klass.first

Let's see your error messages.  But why the heck are you defining an 
object like this anyway?  What are you trying to achieve?

>
> ...and I'm sure that my test db is populated whenever I run my tests...

You shouldn't have to be sure of that beforehand; rather, you should be 
using factories to create records for tests on the fly.

Best,
--
Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]

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