rake test and validates_inclusion_of

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Hello,

I am just starting off with Rails, so I apologize in advance if there is a terribly obvious answer to my problem. I've done some searching and found similar problems to my own, but nothing which yielded a solution.

I have a handful of models that I am unit testing. The tests for each unit run successfully, but when I do a rake test, many of the tests fail.

The assertions that fail are always ones that are asserting that a model, which has a reference to another model, is OK. So for example, one assertion that passes when I do `ruby test/unit/department_test.rb`, but fails when I do `rake test` is:

department = Department.new(:name => "super department",          :parent_id => departments(:administration_department).id) assert department.save

When I print out department.errors, I see that parent_id is invalid because it "is not included in the list".

The validation I have on parent_id is:

validates_inclusion_of :parent_id, :in => Department.find_all.collect {

e> e.id }

So, maybe the department table wasn't the best example because it's acts_as_tree, BUT all the failed assertions are the same: - they're failing on asserting that an object is good - the object has a reference to another model - that reference is being validated with validates_inclusion_of - that reference never passes validation - they pass when i run the test script individually

So my hypothesis is that the fixture data isn't being loaded in before the constraints for the reference_id are being defined, but ONLY in the rake test environment.

Does that make sense? Am I missing something obvious? Any thoughts would be appreciated.

I'm using Rails 1.1.6 and MySQL (with no foreign key constrains in the DB).

Thanks, Julia

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Well, I got no responses to this post explaining why this happens, but I did work around this issue.

For future reference, in case anyone else has this problem, I fixed the rake test errors by validating the reference ID in the validate function instead of using validates_inclusion_of.

So, I removed this:

validates_inclusion_of :parent_id, :in => Department.find_all.collect {

e> e.id }

... and replaced it with this:

protected def validate   unless Department.exists?(parent_id)     errors.add(:parent_id, "is not a valid department")   end end

Julia

juliamae@gmail.com wrote:

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I was having the same problem just the other day, this solution worked but I ended up using validates_associated.

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Validations/ClassMethods.html#M000948