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aardvarkk
aardvarkk

Reputation: 15986

Ruby on Rails test fixture given id of 0

I have a User model and a UsageRecord model that has a foreign key of a user_id. My YAML fixtures are like this:

test/fixtures/users.yml

user_one:
  email: [email protected]

test/fixtures/usage_records.yml

one:
  user_id: user_one

If I run rake test a test fails because the user_id on a UsageRecord is not valid. If I run RAILS_ENV=test rails c and examine the database, sure enough the user_id of the only UsageRecord has an ID of 0 (which doesn't match the user ID in the Users table).

What am I doing wrong here? I want it to have the user ID of 293267324 which matches the generated User model.

UPDATE I found the problem. Instead of specifying user_id, I had to use the association name instead. Switching the UsageRecord YAML to user: one works.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 544

Answers (1)

aardvarkk
aardvarkk

Reputation: 15986

The trick is to use the association name not the column name that will end up having the value. For instance, instead of setting user_id for the UsageRecord, set the user. This will perform the linking properly.

Upvotes: 1

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