Hi all,
I just hit a big wall involving a legacy database. I've got an active record class called "School" that uses "set_table_name 'old_school'" to map to a legacy database table:
class School < ActiveRecord::Base set_table_name 'old_school' end
It works great, until I'm testing and I want to use fixtures. I've got a fixtures file called "old_school.yml" that doesn't load. Following some googled advice (http://www.missiondata.com/blog/uncategorized/80/rails-fixtures-with-models-using-set_table_name/) I learned that I had to use set_fixture_class to be able to map the fixture back to the class name:
# in test_helper.rb class Test::Unit::TestCase self.use_transactional_fixtures = true self.use_instantiated_fixtures = false
set_fixture_class :old_school => School
fixtures :all end
Seems like it ought to work, but the fixtures still don't load!
Looking in my test.log I find:
Unable to load old_school, underlying cause no such file to load -- old_school
/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require' /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:509:in `require' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:354:in `new_constants_in' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:509:in `require' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:101:in `require_or_load' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:60:in `depend_on' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:456:in `require_dependency' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:855:in `try_to_load_dependency' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:870:in `require_fixture_classes' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:867:in `each' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:867:in `require_fixture_classes' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:850:in `fixtures' ./test/test_helper.rb:15 test/functional/admin_controller_test.rb:1:in `require' test/functional/admin_controller_test.rb:1
If I "require 'school'" by hand, it makes no difference. The fixtures still don't load.
Has anybody run in to this? Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks!
Brent
