I'm stymied at how to create a fixture that establishes a has_many :through relationship.
I've watched the railscast at: http://media.railscasts.com/videos/081_fixtures_in_rails_2.mov ... but that's for HABTM relationships. I've read: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/145676 but that ultimately doesn't answer any question. So with no further ado: ==== The models: class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :user_roles, :dependent => :destroy has_many :roles, :through => :user_roles end class Role < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :user_roles, :dependent => :destroy has_many :users, :through => :user_roles end class UserRole < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :role belongs_to :user end ==== The schema: create_table "users", :force => true do |t| t.string "name", :default => "", :null => false t.string "email", :default => "", :null => false end create_table "roles", :force => true do |t| t.string "name" end create_table "user_roles", :force => true do |t| t.integer "role_id" t.integer "user_id" end ==== I understand that you cannot directly add roles in a user fixture, i.e. the following does NOT work: ==== file: fixtures/roles.yml administrator: name: administrator user: name: user guest: name: guest ==== file: fixtures/users.yml superuser: name: "Superuser" email: r...@myexample.com roles: administrator, user ==== ... since YAML will try to directly write to the nonexistent user.roles column. But I WOULD expect that you could write a user_roles.yaml file to make explicit associations, along the lines of: ==== file: fixtures/roles.yml administrator: name: administrator user: name: user guest: name: guest ==== file: fixtures/users.yml superuser: name: "Superuser" email: r...@gmail.com ==== file: fixtures/user_roles.yml one: user: users(:superuser) role: roles(:administrator) two: user: users(:superuser) role: roles(:user) ==== ... but no combination of "roles(:user)", "roles(:user).find", "roles(:user).find.id" etc appears to create the correct associations. Before Marnen tells me to put aside my Luddite tendencies and that I should learn factory_girl or Machinist or the next testing framework du jour, is there any sensible way to do this using fixtures? - ff -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
