Reputation: 60089

Why are my fixture objects not available in my Rails Test::Unit test?

According to this Rails guide, if you create a fixture, it becomes available in your test class.

I have this fixture in users.yml:

<%
  stan = User.new
  stan.username = 'stan'
  stan.set_hashed_password('mysterio')
  stan.email = '[email protected]'
%>

stan:
  username: <%= stan.username %>
  hashed_password: <%= stan.hashed_password %>
  password_salt: <%= stan.password_salt %>
  email: <%= stan.email %>

Following the Rails guide, I'm trying to access it like this:

class SessionsControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase

  @user = users(:stan)

  # ...

end

I get this error:

./test/functional/sessions_controller_test.rb:5: undefined method `users' for SessionsControllerTest:Class (NoMethodError)
    from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require'
    from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
    from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:155:in `require'

Upvotes: 4

Answers (4)

John Owens

Reputation: 61

This is a SUPER old question, but I had a similar problem just now when going through the rails tutorial book.

I have a setup method at the beginning of my UsersLoginTest integration test, and for some reason, the fixture I was referencing in that, didn't seem to be working inside the tests. I had to have a line at the top of the test @user = users(:michael) to get it working.

In the end, I found that I had duplicated the Class declaration at the top of the file, by LAZY copy and pasting from the tutorial book. So if anyone else comes across this thread with a similar problem related to fixtures not working, check if you've made the same silly mistake as me, and duplicated the top of the file!

require 'test_helper'

class UsersLoginTest < ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest

  def setup
    @user = users(:michael)
  end

Upvotes: -1

Ethan

Reputation: 60089

Thanks for the help guys. I realized that I had various declarations and calls structured incorrectly. This isn't clearly explained in the guide I cited, but apparently users(:stan) only works inside a should block, or in pure Test::Unit inside a test_ method.

Upvotes: 5