How does ActiveRecord::TestFixtures::ClassMethods#run_in_transaction? work?

rubyonrails-core
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Here’s the method:

def run_in_transaction?

use_transactional_fixtures &&

!self.class.uses_transaction?(method_name)

end

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I’m super confused. What is method_name? And where does it come from? It’s not a local variable. I can find two instances of def method_name in the repo and neither seem to be related. If I try to call the method directly and use_transactional_fixtures is false I get NameError: undefined local variable or method method_name’`. How is this working normally?

2

Argh, I meant if use_transactional_fixtures is true I get the error.

3

ActiveRecord::TestFixtures is mixed into the test case class itself. method_name is an alias for the Test::Unit::TestCase#name method, which the test harness sets up every time an individual test is started up.

The data maintained by uses_transaction? and friends is used to tell the fixture system that a particular test uses transactions internally (after_commit hooks, etc) and therefore shouldn’t be wrapped with a transaction. You’d specify this by saying uses_transaction :name_of_test_that_uses_transactions in your test case.

—Matt Jones

4

Aha! I hadn’t thought to look on TestCase. Thanks!