fixture_references

fixture_references adds support for referencing external fixtures (by name) from within a fixture definition.

Resources

Announcement

• http://www.pluginaweek.org/2007/04/07/14-fix-your-fixtures-with-fewer-foreign-key-ids

Wiki

• http://wiki.pluginaweek.org/Fixture_references

API

• http://api.pluginaweek.org/fixture_references

Development

• http://dev.pluginaweek.org/browser/trunk/plugins/active_record/migrations/fixture_references

Source

• http://svn.pluginaweek.org/trunk/plugins/active_record/migrations/fixture_references

Description

When writing many complex fixtures for testing within your applications or plugins, it can become cumbersome to keep track of which fixtures reference which other fixtures and going back and forther between files to track ids. This plugin takes the route offered by unit tests by allowing you to reference those fixtures by name rathern than by id.

Usage

See the PluginAWeek::FixtureReferences API for usage information.

Example

employees.yml:

  <% id = 0 %>
  bob:
    id: <%= id += 1 %>
    name: Bob

  joe:
    id: <%= id += 1 %>
    name: Joe

departments.yml:

  <%
  fixtures :employees
  id = 0
  %>

  packaging:
    id: <%= id += 1 %>
    name: Packaging
    manager_id: <%= employees(:bob) %>

Testing

Before you can run any tests, the following gems must be installed:

• plugin_test_helper[http://wiki.pluginaweek.org/Plugin_test_helper]

Dependencies

This plugin does not depend on the presence of any other plugin.

Owner: Aaron Pfeifer, Neil Abraham

Home: http://wiki.pluginaweek.org/Fixture_references

Repository: http://svn.pluginaweek.org/trunk/plugins/active_record/migrations/fixture_references

License: Rails' (MIT)

Category: Testing