[rspec-users] spec_server errors when reloading fixture replacement pl

[Scott Taylor]

Ben Johnson wrote:
> Did anyone ever figure out the factory_girl / machinist issues? I am 
> having the same problems and can figure out how to fix it for the life 
> of me. The first run works fine, then afterwards I get a bunch of these 
> errors:
>
> No blueprint for class Venue
>
> Any ideas? Thanks!
>   
I don't know about Machinist or Factory Girl.  Basically, here's the deal:

If those libraries use require instead of load, you are screwed.  Same 
goes for autoload'ing.

If those libraries internally use load, or load_dependency, and you have 
cache_classes = false in your dev env, you could try manually reloading 
it. 

Here's FixtureReplacement in script/console (@ version 2.1) after 
reload! is called:

http://gist.github.com/116422