Rails models, logging and testing

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Hello,
I am using rails 1.0 and I have following questions. Please help me.

[1] How can I do logging in the rails models? I checked the wiki but
didn’t find
anything which I explained how to do logging in models.

[2] Say I have a certain model, when I declare a function in the model,
and
try to use that function from a view or a unit test, I get an error. For
views
the error occurs only once during the first execution but for unit tests
it is
repeatable.

model file:
class MyModel < ActiveRecord::Base
def abc
“ok”
end
end

view file:
<%= @mymodel.abc %>

What am I doing wrong? Is it something strange and unexpected?

[3] During testing, if I have a fixture file called products.yml and
some
named entries in it, I get an error if I try to use those named entries
as
variable named in my unit tests.

The agile book says:

“Each named fixture is also automatically ?found? using
an Active Record finder method and put in an instance variable named for
the fixture.”

But when I am trying to repeat this I am getting errors, am I missing
something or doing something wrong or have other people also experience
the
same problem?

Thanks.

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Surendra S. [email protected] writes:

Hello,
I am using rails 1.0 and I have following questions. Please help me.

[1] How can I do logging in the rails models? I checked the wiki but didn’t find
anything which I explained how to do logging in models.

I take back this question. Sorry, for creating unnecessary noise.

Surendra S.
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On 01/03/06, Surendra S. [email protected] wrote:

Hello,
I am using rails 1.0 and I have following questions. Please help me.

[1] How can I do logging in the rails models? I checked the wiki but didn’t find
anything which I explained how to do logging in models.

Use following statement:

RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.info “This will be logged with ‘info’ level”

But please not use it in your models. Rather, use it in your tests.
Then even if you forgot to remove logging statements they will not
have impact on performance or log size of your application.

[2] Say I have a certain model, when I declare a function in the model, and
try to use that function from a view or a unit test, I get an error. For views
the error occurs only once during the first execution but for unit tests it is
repeatable.
What am I doing wrong? Is it something strange and unexpected?

Doesn’t look like. Could you provide more info on error?

But when I am trying to repeat this I am getting errors, am I missing
something or doing something wrong or have other people also experience the
same problem?

From Rails 0.14 and onwards fixtures are no longer put in instance
variables. You should either use:

fixtures :users
users(:bob)

or modify the file test/test_helper.rb and change value of
self.use_instantiated_fixtures to true. Second method will slow down
tests (in case of large fixture sets considerably).

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Surendra S. <efuzzyone@…> writes:

[1] How can I do logging in the rails models? I checked the wiki but didn’t
find anything which I explained how to do logging in models.
logger.info “blah”

[3] During testing, if I have a fixture file called products.yml and some
named entries in it, I get an error if I try to use those named entries as
variable named in my unit tests.

Read this for more info on testing:

http://www.clarkware.com/cgi/blosxom/2005/10/24#Rails10FastTesting

-damon

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Hello,

Damon C. [email protected] writes:

Surendra S. <efuzzyone@…> writes:

[3] During testing, if I have a fixture file called products.yml and some
named entries in it, I get an error if I try to use those named entries as
variable named in my unit tests.

Read this for more info on testing:

http://www.clarkware.com/cgi/blosxom/2005/10/24#Rails10FastTesting

Damon and Łukasz thanks for the help.

While writing unit tests for a model, I noticed that I am not able to
use the
methods generated by different associations. How do I use and test them?

Thanks once again.

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On 3/2/06, Surendra S. [email protected] wrote:

Surendra S.
http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails

You’re probably just not including the fixtures for the associated
objects.