From: Phlip <phlip2005@...>
Date: 2009-01-12T02:44:25+09:00
Subject: Re: reccommended work flow for unit tests and databases in ruby

David A. Black wrote:

> I'd have to see the code to know exactly what's going on. Is it a
> problem reconciling foreign key references?

It's a general, structural question, so I will ask it a different way.

This thread seems to propose one can borrow ActiveRecord, plus fixtures and 
migrations, and use them in a Ruby project that is (shocked gasp) not Rails.

If so, then doing this, in Rails, should be easy, too!

   class MyUnitTestSuite < ActiveSupport::TestCase
     fixtures :foos

     def setup
        fixtures :bars
     end
     ...
   end

For whatever reason, we want to load some fixtures the old-fashioned way, and 
some fixtures optionally. Maybe in the top of a test case, or maybe 
conditionally in a setup. Or whatever.

If we promise the OP they can borrow ActiveRecord facilities, then borrowing 
them should indeed be easy. But whenever I try to call or re-use or re-wrap the 
methods inside fixtures, they screw up in horrible ways. This _might_ be a sign 
of coupling!

-- 
   Phlip