I have come to a seeming realization that rails will only load fixtures from one directory per each functional test file (this seems a little un-DRY to me). Am I wrong in my assumption; can it be done? Or is this intentional and I simply don't understand how things are supposed to work?
I'm a Rails noob, but I am willing to dive into the Rails source if it is just a matter of putting some hours into it.
/Brad.
If you have some namespaced models, then the associated namespaced fixtures will be in their own directory by default.
Thanks for your response Andrew.
I should have been more specific in my question : my reason for wanting this is so I can have a few different fixture files for the SAME model : it seems I can't have fixtures for the same model in the same directory.
[ I have a few "count" methods that I want to make sure are working correctly in different circumstances (eg. depending on what type of user is making the call) ]
You probably want fixture scenarios. http://errtheblog.com/posts/61-fixin-fixtures
Thanks for taking the time to reply, Mislav.
Just looked at scenarios. This looks promising, but there doesn't seem to be any way to share fixtures between multiple tests. I have a set of lookup tables that won't change between tests, whereas i have another table that I would like to change from test to test.
I may not be understanding scenarios properly, though, so I will have a closer look tomorrow.
/Brad.