Beginner needs help

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Hi, I am trying to follow the book 'Beginning Ruby on Rails e-commerce' examples.

When I come to unit testing I get an error message: C:/Ruby/bin/ruby.exe -I"lib;test" "C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake/rake_test_loader.rb" "test/unit/author_test.rb" "test/unit/helpers/about_helper_test.rb" C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:440:in `load_missing_constant': uninitialized constant Test::Unit::Testcase (NameError)

My test/unit/author_test.rb looks like this:

require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ' /../test_helper'

class AuthorTest < Test::Unit::Testcase   fixtures :authors   def test_name     author=Author.create(:first_name => 'Joel',                          :last_name => 'Spolsky')

    assert_equal 'Joel Spolsky', author.name   end end

Why do I get the error message ?

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What version of Rails are you using?

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He's using 2.3.2 from the errors..

So, did you create everything from scratch? Or, did you read a section in the book that said go to x website and download the incomplete or complete samples and you are working from those?

If you are working from samples, the samples are probably not using the same RoR version you are. That's the very first question I'd answer.

Most books and source files that go with those books are out of date already.

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class AuthorTest < Test::Unit::Testcase

change the above to

class AuthorTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase

Sijo

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Tried the suggestions from Sijo. Worked like a charm. Coool..!

Thanks again everyone!

//Peter