[Ruby] bootstrap data in test environment

[Aaron Patterson]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:52:55AM -0800, Geoffrey Grosenbach wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 11:11:13AM -0800, Aaron Patterson wrote:
> > I'm working on a rails application with *lots* of bootstrap data (24
> > tables).  I'd rather not specify 24 fixtures in my tests, so I was
> > wondering if there's a way to get rake to run db:bootstrap:load on the
> > test database after creating it?
> 
> Another technique that I sometimes use is to load the fixtures in test_helper.rb, or make a class method on Test::Unit::TestCase that you can call from the tests that need it:
> 
> class Test::Unit::TestCase
>   
>   # All test cases will load these
>   fixtures :foo, :bar, :baz
>   
>   # OR...
>   
>   # Call this method from the tests that need it
>   def self.load_my_fixtures
>     fixtures :foo, :bar, :baz
>   end
> 
> end

Ah, perfect.  I'll just specify them all in there.  Thank you very much!

--Aaron

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