Hi, i just started in rails and i'm very stuck with a fixture issue.
I'm trying to test my models, i have the following models: -user: tipical user -event: "something" with datetime and other things (for example, holydays, trips, and so on) -event_type: defines type of events and some options.
The user has_many :events The event belongs_to :user, and also belongs_to :event_type The event_type has_many :events
But! (here it's the thing) I've defined other relationships, in 'User', like that: has_many :vacations , :class_name => "Event", :foreign_key => "user_id", :conditions => ['event_type_id = ?', EventType.vacations.id]
Obviously in 'EventType' i have methods like: def self.vacations find(:first, :conditions => ["name = ?", "vacations"]) end
Ok, now when i try to execute something like: require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../test_helper' class UserTest < Test::Unit::TestCase fixtures :event_types, :events, :users def test_users assert true end end
I obtained the following error:
$ rake test:units (in /home/blaxter/dev/rails/railsAppSample) /usr/bin/ruby1.8 -Ilib:test "/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake/rake_test_loader.rb" "test/unit/user_test.rb" /home/blaxter/dev/rails/railsAppSample/config/../app/models/user.rb:14: Called id for nil, which would mistakenly be 4 -- if you really wanted the id of nil, use object_id (RuntimeError) from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require' from /home/blaxter/dev/rails/railsAppSample/config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:496:in `require' from /home/blaxter/dev/rails/railsAppSample/config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:343:in `new_constants_in' from /home/blaxter/dev/rails/railsAppSample/config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:496:in `require' from /home/blaxter/dev/rails/railsAppSample/config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:105:in `require_or_load' from /home/blaxter/dev/rails/railsAppSample/config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:61:in `depend_on' from /home/blaxter/dev/rails/railsAppSample/config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:443:in `require_dependency' from /home/blaxter/dev/rails/railsAppSample/config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:472:in `require_fixture_classes' from /home/blaxter/dev/rails/railsAppSample/config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:468:in `each' from /home/blaxter/dev/rails/railsAppSample/config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:468:in `require_fixture_classes' from /home/blaxter/dev/rails/railsAppSample/config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:463:in `fixtures' from ./test/unit/user_test.rb:6 from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake/rake_test_loader.rb:5:in `load' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake/rake_test_loader.rb:5 from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake/rake_test_loader.rb:5:in `each' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake/rake_test_loader.rb:5 rake aborted! Command failed with status (1): [/usr/bin/ruby1.8 -Ilib:test "/usr/lib/ruby...]
I thing the error is because rails is trying to obtain 'vacations' relationship before 'EventType' table contains the data defined in the fixture. The line 14 of users.rb is: :conditions => ['event_type_id = ?', EventType.vacations.id] so EventType.vacations will be nil, so EventType.vacations.id fails
I try to defined the fixtures in order, but it doesn't work.
I don't know if i'm doing something wrong, if i shouldn't use that kind of relathionship in my model, or what i should try to do :(.
Any help it would appreciate, thanks. Jesús.
