Cucumber dying on decrement_open_transactions

Testing RSpec
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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.

Cheers,
Wincent

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On 1/18/09 10:18 AM, Wincent C. wrote:

Scenario: the wiki has no article # features/wiki.feature:6
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

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On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Wincent C. [email protected]
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:

I filed a ticket on this yesterday:
http://rspec.lighthouseapp.com/projects/16211/tickets/165-error-when-not-caching-classes

Perhaps you could attach your test case to it?

///ark

Feature: accessing the wiki index

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On 1/18/09 10:18 AM, Wincent C. wrote:

Scenario: the wiki has no article # features/wiki.feature:6
The error occurred while evaluating nil.- from
Cheers,
Wincent

Looking at the line in the adapter where it is failing I see:
def decrement_open_transactions
@open_transactions -= 1
end

I can’t figure out how @open_transactions would ever be nil. I think
your best chance to figure it out would be to step through the code with
rubydebug starting in cucumber/rails/world.rb. (That is where the
transactions are incremented and decremented.)

-Ben