Hi all, I’m new to Rails, I got the book and I’ve got a question
unanswered.
I need to build a Rail application on top on an existing Database (MS
SQL
server) and the naming convention for the tables name is not quite the
same
as Rails.
The tables names aren’t pluralize and they use capital letter at the
beginning of each word instead of using “_” to separate the words.
(e.g.:
ClientPrice instead of client_price)
I’ve managed to create a model, thanks to Rails ability to override the
default settings, however when I come to test it using fixtures I’m
running
into troubles.
I’ve got a table called “ClientPrice”, I’ve therefore created a model
called
“ClientPrice” and adjusted the table name and primary key name in the
model:
class ClientPrice < ActiveRecord::Base
set_table_name “ClientPrice”
set_primary_key “ClientPrice_id”
end
This works fine and I can CRUD into this model using scaffolding. Rails
also created a fixture file for me called “client_price”. However I had
to
rename it to “clientprice” so it can load the data into the Test
database.
Here’s my sample fixture file:
price_for_client_A:
ClientPrice_id: 1
Price: 1.5
Unit: Dollars
Here’s my problem, I wrote the following test file:
class ClientPriceTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
fixtures :clientprice
def test_model
assert_equal clientprice(:price_for_client_A).Price,
ClientPrice.find
(:first).Price
end
end
And the assertion failed saying “NoMethodError: You have a nil object
when
you didn’t expect it!”
It means that clientprice(:price_for_client_A) is retuning a NIL object
while it should return the 1st object of my fixture, to make the test to
work I have to do this:
assert_equal 1.5, ClientPrice.find(:first).Price
In this case it works because the database is correctly populated with
1.5
However if my table name is just called “Client” and my fixture file
called
“client.yml” then the above test works fine. Providing that my Model is
now
called “Client” and my test class called “ClientTest”
Any idea why that is?
Gael