unit test: fixutres not getting loaded into instance vars

rubyonrails-talk
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this is odd.. not my first time writing tests, but i have the records in my test fixtures labelled so i can just use the instance variable '@label' in my tests. worked fine in my other rails project, but i get nil errors now.. when i put @label = Table.find(1) in the setup method things work fine.. any idea why my fixture data is getting auto-loaded into the intance vars?

thanks in advance,

Stuart

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That method of dealing with fixtures is deprecated and should not be used. It might even be gone now for you. Proper use of fixures:

fixture_type(:fixture_name)

So in your case

table(:label)

Jason

3

well it works now.. but one more thing:

usually the table that the fixture is from gets cleared out after the test.. right now after the test is done i can go into the test database and still see records in it..

things seem very different. don't know why