Archives: 2009 May
Mass Find/replace for Rails Tests
May 26th, 2009, Comments Off
After upgrading an old project to Rails 2.3.2,my tests were failing to run, bombing out with an error like:
./test/unit/my_model.rb:4: undefined method `fixtures’ for MyModelTest:Class (NoMethodError)
This was because in Rails 2.3.2, tests have to derive from ActiveSupport::TestCase, and not the old Test::Unit::TestCase.
A quick find and replace soon has us up and running again:
perl -pi -w -e [...]
Rails Plugin Tests Not Executed
May 7th, 2009, Comments Off
With Rails 2.3.2, if you create your own plugin using “script/generate plugin {pluginname}”, then enter the vendor/plugins/{pluginname} directory, and run “rake test”, your tests will not run.
The fix for this is to add the following line to your vendor/plugins/{pluginname}/test/test_helper.rb file:
require ‘test/unit’
… so that the top of the file now looks like this:
require ‘rubygems’
require ‘active_support’
require ‘active_support/test_case’
require [...]
