From: Stephen Richards <s.richards@...>
Date: 2006-08-19T17:25:09+09:00
Subject: Ruby on Rails testing/ fixtures question

Hi,

I'm using Test::Unit::TastCase and am having some problems getting 
expected database state before the test methods.

My Ruby on rails book quite clearly says that the following things 
happen before every test method is run:
   - all records in the database are deleted
   - all the data in the fixtures are loaded into the database
   - the setup method is run.

In the following situation, the test_deactivate method happens to get 
run first.  Then the test_find_all_for_team method runs, and doesn't 
find the expected number of records (because one of them has been 
de-activated).

Am I doing something wrong, or do the fixtures not get loaded every time?

code snippet:

require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../test_helper'

class TaskTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
     fixtures :employees, :teams, :states, :tasks


     def test_find_all_for_team
         active_tasks = Task.find_all_for_team
         assert_equal 3, active_tasks.size
     end

     def test_deactivate
         task = Task.find(1)
         assert task.active?

         task.deactivate
         task.reload
         assert !task.active?
     end

end