Comments on: Fixtures Without Rails http://rails.aizatto.com/2007/06/04/fixtures-without-rails/ Ruby and Ruby on Rails Development Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:04:43 +0000 By: Jevin http://rails.aizatto.com/2007/06/04/fixtures-without-rails/#comment-661 Jevin Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:36:59 +0000 http://rails.aizatto.com/2007/06/04/fixtures-without-rails/#comment-661 As a response to Chris. The Rake::TestTask works great for me: Rake::TestTask.new do |t| t.libs << "test" t.test_files = FileList['test/*Test.rb'] t.verbose = true end Look up the Rake::TestTask for more info. As a response to Chris. The Rake::TestTask works great for me:

Rake::TestTask.new do |t|
t.libs << “test”
t.test_files = FileList['test/*Test.rb']
t.verbose = true
end

Look up the Rake::TestTask for more info.

]]> By: Chris http://rails.aizatto.com/2007/06/04/fixtures-without-rails/#comment-60 Chris Mon, 04 Jun 2007 01:19:34 +0000 http://rails.aizatto.com/2007/06/04/fixtures-without-rails/#comment-60 Hi, Do you know how to do this without Rake inside a unit test? So you can just put something like: fixtures :table1, :table2 at the top of a unit test? That seems to be a bit trickier. There's an old post on ruby forum from a year ago, where this guy has a custom test helper. http://opensvn.csie.org/ezra/rails/ez_where_two/test/test_helper.rb Then after you use that test helper, supposedly you can use fixtures in your own unit tests outside of rails. I copied the test helper but I still cant get it to work. Putting fixtures :table1, :table2 does absolutely nothing... I wonder if the example is just too old. I can get them to work if I do create_fixtures(table1, table2) inside a specific test method, but its not as nice as just putting fixtures :table1, etc. at the top of the entire unit test class. -Chris Hi,
Do you know how to do this without Rake inside a unit test? So you can just put something like:
fixtures :table1, :table2 at the top of a unit test?

That seems to be a bit trickier.
There’s an old post on ruby forum from a year ago, where this guy has a custom test helper.

http://opensvn.csie.org/ezra/rails/ez_where_two/test/test_helper.rb

Then after you use that test helper, supposedly you can use fixtures in your own unit tests outside of rails. I copied the test helper but I still cant get it to work. Putting fixtures :table1, :table2 does absolutely nothing…

I wonder if the example is just too old. I can get them to work if I do create_fixtures(table1, table2) inside a specific test method, but its not as nice as just putting fixtures :table1, etc. at the top of the entire unit test class.

-Chris

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