# Cant get fixtures to load **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 11, 2007, 1:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-get-fixtures-to-load/88456 "2007-03-11T13:28:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KSRajesh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/c77e96/32.png) [@KSRajesh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/KSRajesh)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2007, 1:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-get-fixtures-to-load/88456/1 "2007-03-11T13:28:37Z")
Hi, I cant get yaml fixtures to load. The brief error is Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - some. I have NO idea what this ‘some’ is. The yaml file is simplicity itself. hq: id: 1 role\_name: HeadQuarters I have tried this with a) One space after the colon following id and role\_name b) Indented perfectly according to JEdit. Both give the same error. Any thoughts? Regards, Rajesh The complete error message is below. Fixture::FormatError: a YAML error occured parsing F:/railswork/kbase/ config/…/ test/fixtures/roles.yml. Please note that YAML must be consistently indented usi ng spaces. Tabs are not allowed. Please have a look at [http://www.yaml.org/faq.h](http://www.yaml.org/faq.h) tml The exact error was: Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - some e:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/ active\_record/fixture s.rb:311:in `read_fixture_files' e:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/ active_record/fixture s.rb:279:in `initialize’ e:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/ active\_record/fixture s.rb:251:in `new' e:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/ active_record/fixture s.rb:251:in `create\_fixtures’ e:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/ active\_record/fixture s.rb:250:in `map' e:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/ active_record/fixture s.rb:250:in `create\_fixtures’ e:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/ active\_record/base.rb :794:in `silence' e:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/ active_record/fixture s.rb:248:in `create\_fixtures’ e:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/ active\_record/fixture s.rb:565:in `load_fixtures' e:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/ active_record/fixture s.rb:512:in `setup’ 1. Error: test\_unique\_role(RoleTest): NoMethodError: You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it! You might have expected an instance of Array. The error occured while evaluating nil.- e:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/ active\_record/transac tions.rb:112:in `unlock_mutex' e:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/ active_record/fixture s.rb:534:in `teardown’ 1 tests, 0 assertions, 0 failures, 2 errors ---
**Author:** ![KSRajesh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/c77e96/32.png) [@KSRajesh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/KSRajesh)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2007, 2:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-get-fixtures-to-load/88456/2 "2007-03-11T14:41:45Z")
$ irb -r yaml irb(main):001:0\> YAML.load(“hq:\n id: 1\n role\_name: HeadQuarters”) =\> {“hq”=\>{“id”=\>1, “role\_name”=\>“HeadQuarters”}} irb(main):002:0\> YAML.load(“hq:\n\tid: 1\n\trole\_name: HeadQuarters”) ArgumentError: syntax error on line 1, col 4: `id: 1' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in`load’ from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `load’ from (irb):2 > > Make sure JEdit isn’t including tabs BEFORE id: and role\_name: ---
**Author:** ![KSRajesh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/c77e96/32.png) [@KSRajesh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/KSRajesh)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2007, 6:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-get-fixtures-to-load/88456/3 "2007-03-11T18:10:22Z")
I am quite sure there are no tabs before the id and the role\_name. I transferred it into Editplus and checked too. No question about that… Rajesh