On Sep 5, 2008, at 3:39 PM, Greg Hauptmann wrote:
Ben - I like your suggestion, thanks. I'll start trying to structure
some of my tests around this concept until there's a better way.
Mark - I'm curious to understand what you actually do re "I personally
do not use fixtures because my model specs usually don't use a
"typical" data set. I'll create my own data set for each type of spec,
often using an object mother to create the valid network of objects."
Did you just mean that at the start of a test you create test data
in the database programmatically, as opposed to hard wiring it in a
fixture?
You might want to check out Dan Manges' post from a while back:
http://www.dcmanges.com/blog/38
There are a ton of plugins out there that implement the idea. I wrote
FixtureReplacement (http://replacefixtures.rubyforge.org/) after this
idea, but there are actually a ton of them out there that do more or
less the same thing - ObjectDaddy, factory_girl).
Scott
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