foxy fixtures – too fast

13Dec07

This one looks like a bug!

  # sellers.yml
  shopify:
    name: Shopify

  # products.yml
  pimp_cup:
    seller: shopifi #what if we make a typo here?
    name: Pimp cup

  #foxy_test.rb
products(:pimp_cup).nil?
=> false #fixtures are loaded without problems!
products(:pimp_cup).seller.nil?
=> true #huh seller is not set

products(:pimp_cup).seller_id.nil?
=> false #this is totally wrong
sellers(:shopifi)
=> StandardError: No fixture with name 'shopifi' found for table 'sellers' #I'd prefer it at the fixtures loading time

I just made such a typo, which made me stare to my tests for a while..

Update:

It appears that this lack of checking comes for a reason – basically database foreign key constraints are switched off when fixtures are loaded – to be able to use things like ‘fixtures :all’, a very lovely feature. And this lack of checking seems to be not a big deal after conversion to foxy fixtures is completed – during normal dev cycle problems are seen as they come, mainly one by one.

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