Hi! I am quite new to BDD and I just wrote my first tests. Suddenly I received unexpected results because in a model test I load only users-fixtures but when the views-fixtures in which I load the posts-fixtures, are run before this model-test, the posts-fixtures are loaded too. I test for example if there is one record in the posts-table after creating one post. But when there are fixtures loaded, this does not work of course. A similar issue was discussed here already in October 2006, but there was no real result: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/rspec-users/2006-October/000088.html
I am using edge rails with the current RSpec and RSpec on Rails - plugins. I first used sqlite3, then mysql to verify that it is no sqlite3 bug, but the errors occur also when I am using Mysql. Transactional fixtures are enabled, instantiated fixtures are disabled. My question is now: Is this behavior really desired? Because now my model-tests alone pass, and all the other tests too, but when the view-tests are run before the model-tests, they don't pass. So the passing of the tests becomes unpredictable. And I think I will have additional fixtures for models I don't use fixtures at the moment and this will make other tests fail, too. So should I really write tests that work with any fixtures loaded? And why is there a possibility to load fixtures in one description also this loads the fixtures actually globally? What can I do against this behavior? Is this a bug? Greetings Michael Hamann _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
