Problem with Test Fixtures

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Hi All,

I'm currently working on an Admin Controller that displays a list of topics and questions. Users are required to login to add topics/ questions. The login functionality works fine in practice - all actions except 'signin' are wrapped in a before filter that redirects in the absence of session[:user].

My problem is that all my tests are producing errors as the test suite will not recognise the fixtures for the AdminUser model as follows:

"No fixture with name 'robin' found for table 'admin_users'"

I've set out below 2 sample tests from the admin_controller_test (note the methods at the bottom - covering the bases using strings and symbols), fixtures and 'tail' from the test.log. I have tried to pass the session directly as a parameter to an individual test and still receive the same error.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Robin

- - - - - - - -   def test_should_show_new     get_with_user :new     assert_response :success     assert_template 'new'     assert_not_nil assigns(:topic)   end

  def test_should_add_topic     post_with_user :new, :topic => {:name => 'test topic', :description => 'test description'}     assert ! assigns(:topic).new_record?     assert_redirected_to :action => 'index'     assert_not_nil flash[:notice]   end

  protected   def get_with_user(action, parameters = nil, session = nil, flash = nil)     get action, nil, {'user' => admin_users(:robin).id}   end

  def post_with_user(action, parameters = nil, session = nil, flash = nil)     post action, nil, :user => admin_users('robin').id   end - - - - - - - one:   id: 1   username: robin   password_salt: 1YP9AH4N   password_hash: 4deec5b9b2fb00544b018ee17e27e6fb9ed338d7a1402d16b72b715e75ea2ef4 #secret

two:   id: 2   username: jaye   password_salt: CB620C9W   password_hash: 1ff5c3462acdb8aa47fc07a2fd4a8103ac43d8754fb263b350bfb79e8b413c33 #bunny - - - - - - - robin-fishers-computer:~/elearning robinfisher$ rake test:functionals tail -f log/test.log (in /Users/robinfisher/elearning) rake aborted! /Users/robinfisher/elearning/log/test.log:1: Invalid char `\033' in expression /Users/robinfisher/elearning/log/test.log:1: parse error, unexpected ';', expecting ']'   SQL (0.000167) SET SQL_AUTO_IS_NULL=0       ^ /Users/robinfisher/elearning/log/test.log:1: parse error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER, expecting $   SQL (0.000167) SET SQL_AUTO_IS_NULL=0               ^

(See full trace by running task with --trace)

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one: id: 1 username: robin password_salt: 1YP9AH4N password_hash: 4deec5b9b2fb00544b018ee17e27e6

fb9ed338d7a1402d16b72b715e75ea2ef4 #secret

Should be

robin:

id: 1 username: robin password_salt: 1YP9AH4N password_hash: 4deec5b9b2fb00544b018ee17e27e6 fb9ed338d7a1402d16b72b715e75ea2ef4 #secret

When you do admin_users(:robin) you need to pass the NAME of the fixture entry… Your first fixture entry is ‘one’ and not ‘robin’.

Does that make sense?

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Makes perfect sense!

Thanks for the quick response, I'm now showing a healthy 0 failures, 0 errors.

Robin