Rake test:units fails on Postgresql due to nil

Rails
1

Following the directions in:

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/04/19/rest-on-rails.html?page=2

I get through the:

rake db:migrate

With the tables created properly but then when I run the:

rake test:units

I get a failure:

ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: RuntimeError: ERROR C23502 Mnull
value in column “title” violates not-null constraint FexecMain.c
L1750 RExecConstraints: INSERT INTO books (“id”) VALUES (2)

My only departure from the directions is to use postgresql rather than
mysql as the database adapter.

2

I’m not sure which driver you’re using, but it
sounds like you’re using this one:
Snapshot version ruby-postgres-20051221.tar.gz (2005/12/21)

If so, you should use this one instead:

Release version ruby-postgres-0.7.1.tar.gz(2003/01/06)

Both are available here:

http://ruby.scripting.ca/postgres/

And a discussion on this topic can be found here:

http://lists.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/2006-March/022710.html

–
– Tom M.

3

No joy.

I downloaded, zxvf’d it, ruby extconf.rb’ed it, make’ed it and make
install’ed it

Deleted the tables and reran rake db:migrate

Then on make test:units

(in /var/www/rails/library)
NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence “books_id_seq” for
serial column “books.id”
NOTICE: CREATE TABLE / PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index
“books_pkey” for table “books”
/usr/bin/ruby -Ilib:test
“/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake/rake_test_loader.rb”
“test/unit/book_test.rb”
Loaded suite
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake/rake_test_loader
Started
EWARNING: there is no transaction in progress
E
Finished in 0.027749 seconds.

  1. Error:
    test_truth(BookTest):
    ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: PGError: ERROR: null value in column
    “title” violates not-null constraint
    : INSERT INTO books (“id”) VALUES (2)
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb:120:in
    `log’

Tom M. wrote:

I’m not sure which driver you’re using, but it
sounds like you’re using this one:
Snapshot version ruby-postgres-20051221.tar.gz (2005/12/21)

If so, you should use this one instead:

Release version ruby-postgres-0.7.1.tar.gz(2003/01/06)

Both are available here:

http://ruby.scripting.ca/postgres/

And a discussion on this topic can be found here:

http://lists.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/2006-March/022710.html

4

Can we see that migration and fixture?

– -- Tom M.