[rspec-users] Cucumber dying on decrement_open_transactions

[Ben Mabey]

On 1/18/09 10:18 AM, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
> I am trying to convert from Story Runner to Cucumber so have started 
> with a really minimal story, but am dying with exceptions in 
> ActiveRecord's decrement_open_transactions method. I started took my 
> shortest story and trimmed off steps until I got it down to the 
> minimal case that aborts:
>
>   Feature: accessing the wiki index
>     As a user
>     I want to view the wiki index
>     So that I can get an overview of what is available
>
>     Scenario: the wiki has no article
>       Given no articles in the wiki
>       When I access the wiki index
>       Then I should see "Recently updated"
>
> The corresponding steps are:
>
>   Given /^no articles in the wiki$/ do
>     Article.destroy_all
>   end
>
>   When /^I access the wiki index$/ do
>     get '/wiki'
>   end
>
> But I die with:
>
> Feature: accessing the wiki index  # features/wiki.feature
>   As a user
>   I want to view the wiki index
>   So that I can get an overview of what is available
>   Scenario: the wiki has no article       # features/wiki.feature:6
>     Given no articles in the wiki         # 
> features/step_definitions/wiki.rb:1
>     When I access the wiki index          # 
> features/step_definitions/wiki.rb:9
>     Then I should see "Recently updated"  # 
> features/step_definitions/webrat_steps.rb:83
> /Users/wincent/demo/src/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb:159:in 
> `decrement_open_transactions': You have a nil object when you didn't 
> expect it! (NoMethodError)
> You might have expected an instance of Array.
> The error occurred while evaluating nil.-    from 
> /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/cucumber-0.1.15/bin/../lib/cucumber/rails/world.rb:60:in 
> `__cucumber_26364730'
>
> I can make the error go away if I comment out:
>
>   Cucumber::Rails.use_transactional_fixtures
>
> But I'd like to understand why it doesn't work with the default 
> setting, just in case I am doing something wrong.

 From what I can see I don't believe you are doing anything wrong.
What DB are you using?  Perhaps your adapter doesn't support 
transactions? (just a wild guess)

-Ben