# Why is sentry's test fixtures nil? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [November 22, 2007, 2:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-is-sentrys-test-fixtures-nil/121001 "2007-11-22T14:51:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![takuo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/7ba0ec/32.png) [@takuo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/takuo)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2007, 2:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-is-sentrys-test-fixtures-nil/121001/1 "2007-11-22T14:51:11Z")
## I tried sentry plugin’s test. It occured error with below message. # rake test DB=‘mysql’ – create\_table(“users”, {:force=\>true}) -\> 0.0214s – initialize\_schema\_information() -\> 0.0006s – columns(“schema\_info”) -\> 0.0021s Loaded suite /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake/ rake\_test\_loader Started EE…EE…E.FE… Finished in 0.049832 seconds. 1. Error: test\_should\_decrypt\_creditcard(AsymmetricSentryCallbackTest): NoMethodError: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.3/lib/ active_record/fixtures.rb:498:in`users’ ./test/asymmetric\_sentry\_callback\_test.rb:28:in `test\_should\_decrypt\_creditcard’ 2. Error: test\_should\_decrypt\_encrypted\_creditcard(AsymmetricSentryCallbackTest): NoMethodError: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.3/lib/ active_record/fixtures.rb:498:in`users’ ./test/asymmetric\_sentry\_callback\_test.rb:54:in `test\_should\_decrypt\_encrypted\_creditcard’ … 1. Error: test\_should\_return\_nil\_on\_invalid\_key(SymmetricSentryCallbackTest): NoMethodError: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.3/lib/ active_record/fixtures.rb:498:in`users’ ./test/symmetric\_sentry\_callback\_test.rb:26:in `test\_should\_return\_nil\_on\_invalid\_key’ 30 tests, 53 assertions, 1 failures, 6 errors * * * These error may be caused by failure of fixtures initializations. How can i fix this problem? I tried it under below environment. Ruby version 1.8.6 (i686-darwin8.10.2) RubyGems version 0.9.4 Rails version 1.2.3 Active Record version 1.15.3 Action Pack version 1.13.3 Action Web Service version 1.2.3 Action Mailer version 1.3.3 Active Support version 1.4.2 ---
**Author:** ![takuo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/7ba0ec/32.png) [@takuo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/takuo)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2007, 6:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-is-sentrys-test-fixtures-nil/121001/2 "2007-11-23T06:08:50Z")
I found the reason why fixtures had not been initialized. The fixtures is initialized by Test::Unit::TestCase#setup\_with\_fixtures, it is aliased :setup, which is required that ActiveRecord::Base.configurations is not nil I added code to set ActiveRecord::Base.configurations below code. – abstract\_unit.rb 2007-11-23 14:00:26.000000000 +0900 +++ abstract\_unit.new 2007-11-23 14:04:40.000000000 +0900 @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ config = YAML::load(IO.read(config\_location)) ActiveRecord::Base.logger = Logger.new(File.dirname( **FILE** ) + “/ debug.log”) +ActiveRecord::Base.configurations=config ActiveRecord::Base.establish\_connection(config[ENV[‘DB’] || ‘sqlite’]) load(File.dirname( **FILE** ) + “/schema.rb”)