Unit test: fixutres not getting loaded into instance vars

Rails
1

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

2

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

4

Instanciated fixtures (fixtures appearing as instance variables) can be
turned on/off (default now off as it is slower) from your test_helper
Transactional fixtures are now on by default (because it’s faster),
however if you’re using a db that doesn’t do transactions (eg MySQL with
MyISAM tables then that won’t work), which would explains the changes
made during tests persisting.

Fred