Functional Testing Acts as Ferret plugin

Is there a way to reliably test the acts_as_ferret plugin using RoR
functional tests? I load my fixtures and no matter what I do, the test
won’t return a result for what should be a query that returns results.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

FIXTURE


article_001:
id: 1
title: some valid article title
body: This is a valid article entry with
some images and stuff.

FUNCTIONAL TEST


def test_search
get :search, :q => “some valid article title”
assert_equal 1, assigns(:articles).size
end

MODEL


acts_as_ferret( { :fields => { ‘title’ => { :boost => 2 },
‘body’ => { :boost => 1.5 },
‘ferret_index_article_comments’ => {
:boost => 1 },
‘ferret_index_article_image_captions’
=> { :boost => 1.5 } } },
{ :analyzer =>
Ferret::Analysis::StandardAnalyzer.new([nil]) } )