Brian's Tech Blog

It was pointed out that my last post was not complete. Things worked, but as soon as you ran the test cases (admittedly, I don't do that very often) things break.

To solve the problem, I found a great page on the rubyonrails.org wiki here

Follow up:

What I did was change the name of the generated fixture from users.yml to phpbb_users.yml. Now this file contains:

first:
  user_id: 1
  username: "testusers"
  user_password: "TEST"

e user_test.rb unit test, comment out the fixture line and add the following:

  def setup
      ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(:phpbbtest)
      Fixtures.create_fixtures(File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../fixtures", "phpbb_users")
  end

add a test database in the database.yml:

phpbbtest:
  adapter: mysql
  database: phpbb_test
  username: root
  password:
  host: localhost

is does is redirect our unit test to use the test database, and use the fixture we created for this test.

This experience has shown me a weakness in my development and testing, look forward to more posts about how I fix all my test cases for this app.