Hi Geoff,

Thanks for the thorough investigation. The first thing I'd do here
would be to open a new ticket (or reopen Ticket #16) and post your
findings there. Then we can start looking at how to fix this issue in
the test environment.

James

On 6/20/07, Geoff Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is following up on http://lists.toolbocks.com/pipermail/
> toolbocks-user/2007-May/000027.html
> (datetime_toolbocks fails in functional tests)
>
> Here's the problem:
>
> Engines causes plugins to be loaded in 2 phases.  First plugins that
> don't depend on engines are loaded.  Then Rails does some
> initialization.  Then Engines patches Rails.  Then the remaining
> plugins get loaded.
>
> After all that is done, Engines' modifications of dependencies.rb
> will cause a subsequent load of application_helper to be patched by
> application_helper files in plugins.  All well and good in
> development and production mode.
>
> The trouble comes in test mode: the file ~rails/lib/test_help.rb gets
> loaded during Rails's initialization, before the engines plugins.
> test_help.rb requires application.rb, which in turn loads
> application_helper.rb.  Because the engines plugins haven't been
> loaded yet, application_helper.rb is unpatched, and
> datetime_toolbocks's methods are unavailable to functional tests.
>
> It looks like there is a related bug in the engines repository:
> http://dev.rails-engines.org/engines-plugin/tickets/16
>
> A nasty fix is to copy ~rails/lib/test_help.rb to your project's lib
> directory and then add the following two lines right before the call
> to require_dependency 'application'
>
> require 'engines'
> Engines.after_initialize
>
> (Engines.after_initialize loads the extra plugins)
>
> Geoff
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