Comments on: ActiveFixture: correct fixture loading with foreign key constraints

By: Alex le

Alex le — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:26:48 +0000

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By: Diaz

Diaz — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:49:50 +0000

hey, thanks for what you doing. By the way, i’m having a litle issue here, in the Models folder i have a file that is not a class but a module that i load in almost all the others model files, so it is giving a error about the reflection that it offcourse can’t do, between the lines 14 to 31…

what should i change for it to run fine?

By: Alex le

Alex le — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:09:50 +0000

@Diaz,

To use ActiveLoad during testing, we will have to override how Rails handles the fixtures. I know it is possible to write a wrapper for the ActiveLoad method and define an “alias” to the original “load fixture” method. The wrapper would then determine the dependencies and load the models accordingly. With that said, I just haven’t got to do it yet. The tricky part is to figure how to overide and hookup ActiveLoad in place during testing.

Since you’re requesting, once I have cleared out my projects list a bit, I’ll look into implementing this feature.

Cheers!

By: Diaz

Diaz — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:57:38 +0000

ok, i just thought this could soulve the problem of when i run ‘rake test’ it fails all the tests because i added the foreign keys with the plugin ‘foreign_key_migrations’ from redhill. Do you have a tip or a idea to solve this?

thanks.

By: Alex le

Alex le — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:30:18 +0000

@Diaz

Once you have installed the plugin, you can then run

rake db:fixtures:activeload

instead of the usual

rake db:fixtures:load

Currently ActveLoad doesn’t support smart fixture loading during unit-testing yet. I’m not planning to work on it yet but probably will implement it when I need to do more extensive testings.

By: Diaz

Diaz — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:05:33 +0000

sorry to ask if it is a very basic question, but how do i do to when i simply run rake or rake test it loads the fixtures using this plugin instead of the default action??

plz answer…

By: Edwin Jose Palathinkal

Edwin Jose Palathinkal — Mon, 05 May 2008 00:21:15 +0000

If you need GUI debugger for Rails, Netbeans 6.1 is the way to go. It’s just like debugging .NET when using it.

Nice work anyway!

By: Romulo Velasquez

Romulo Velasquez — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:07:26 +0000

Gonna give this a try. Hopefully it solves my testing issues with foreign key constraints. Thanks for the work!

By: Nikos D.

Nikos D. — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:33:58 +0000

Excellent - thanks a lot!

I will let you know if i find anything ‘unusual’ going on…

By: Ra

Ra — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:59:09 +0000

10x very much Alex, you solved my problem.
I’m using you plugin with with Eclipse/Aptana/Rails, unfotunately you plug-in is not listed :-(. Installed by hand.

The tricky part was to define class and foreign key in has_many and belongs_to definition, as mentioned in readme.
In my case I had to define fixture’s file with the name of real tables (schema).