Hi all,
I just hit a big wall involving a legacy database. I’ve got an active
record class called “School” that uses “set_table_name ‘old_school’” to
map to a legacy database table:
class School < ActiveRecord::Base
set_table_name ‘old_school’
end
It works great, until I’m testing and I want to use fixtures. I’ve got
a fixtures file called “old_school.yml” that doesn’t load. Following
some googled advice
(http://www.missiondata.com/blog/uncategorized/80/rails-fixtures-with-models-using-set_table_name/)
I learned that I had to use set_fixture_class to be able to map the
fixture back to the class name:
in test_helper.rb
class Test::Unit::TestCase
self.use_transactional_fixtures = true
self.use_instantiated_fixtures = false
set_fixture_class :old_school => School
fixtures :all
end
Seems like it ought to work, but the fixtures still don’t load!
Looking in my test.log I find:
Unable to load old_school, underlying cause no such file to load –
old_school
/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
gem_original_require' /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in require’
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:509:in
require' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:354:in new_constants_in’
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:509:in
require' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:101:in require_or_load’
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:60:in
depend_on' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:456:in require_dependency’
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:855:in
try_to_load_dependency' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:870:in require_fixture_classes’
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:867:in
each' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:867:in require_fixture_classes’
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:850:in
fixtures' ./test/test_helper.rb:15 test/functional/admin_controller_test.rb:1:in require’
test/functional/admin_controller_test.rb:1
If I “require ‘school’” by hand, it makes no difference. The fixtures
still don’t load.
Has anybody run in to this? Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks!
Brent
