[rspec-users] cucumber and fixtures

[Mark Thomson]

Hilarious. This is exactly what I needed today as well and eventually 
found this thread through Google, not realizing it was already sitting 
in my inbox. :-).

In my case I wanted to use fixtures in testing because the development 
db had already been populated by a data migration, and I didn't want to 
write more code to both define and load the data as would be required 
using seed-fu. It seemed easier to install the ar_fixtures plugin and 
use that to dump the data to a yaml file and then load the data in as 
part of my story execution. Hence my need for the solution Daniel mentioned.

Despite my inexperience, I was a little surprised that I had difficulty 
figuring out how to do this. I'm still not sure why "fixtures :model" 
like you would use in Test::Unit does not work. And I can report that 
"self.class.fixtures :all" recommended here: 
http://www.mail-archive.com/rspec-users@rubyforge.org/msg03194.html, did 
not work for me. I presume that at some point some more extensive 
documentation for Cucumber will appear and I think this is an example of 
an issue that would be helpful to have described in more detail.

Mark.


Daniel Higginbotham wrote:
> Pat Maddox wrote:
>   
>> Daniel Higginbotham <lists at ruby-forum.com> writes:
>>
>>     
>>>>   ActiveRecord::Schema.verbose = false
>>>>      { :name => "blah", :id => 1 },
>>>>         
>>>   end
>>> end
>>>
>>> Are you similarly able to load your YAML fixtures from spec/fixtures 
>>> when you're running a Cucumber feature?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Daniel Higginbotham
>>>       
>> I don't know that it's built into Cucumber, but loading fixtures is
>> pretty simple from what I remember.  Something like
>> AR::Fixtures.load('path/to/file.yml') or something.  Look around and I'm
>> sure you can find the couple lines to make it work.
>>
>> Pat
>>     
>
> Thanks Pat!
>
> It looks like
>
> Fixtures.create_fixtures("spec/fixtures", "users")
>
> works.
>   
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