[rspec-users] uh... fixtures?

[David Chelimsky]

On Feb 17, 2008 9:49 PM, Phlip <phlip2005 at gmail.com> wrote:
> RSpec-ers:
>
> I'm aware this is quite the FAQ. I have probably asked it myself, but I just
> can't Google up anything but others asking it.
>
> I grabbed the source to Beast, to use as a Rails project uninfluenced by me, or
> RSpec. Then I installed the CURRENT version of RSpec and rspec_on_rails, and set
> up a model spec on Post.
>
> Here's the spec_helper.rb lines:
>
>    config.use_transactional_fixtures = true
>    config.use_instantiated_fixtures  = false
>    config.fixture_path = RAILS_ROOT + '/test/fixtures/'
>                 #  borrow existing ones  ^
>    config.global_fixtures = :posts, :topics, :users
>
> And here's a Beast test translated into a spec:
>
> describe Post do
>    fixtures :forums, :moderatorships, :monitorships, :posts, :topics, :users
>
>    it 'should require body for post' do
>      @post = topics(:pdi).posts.build

s/pdi/pid

Funny that the typo should lead you to PDI :)

>      @post.valid?
>      assert @post.errors.on(:body)
>    end
> end
>
> And the whiny nil error message hits topics(:pid).
>
> Any ideas?



>
> --
>    Phlip
>
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