Daniel Higginbotham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Zach Dennis wrote:
>> I use seed_fu with cucumber.
>>
>> http://github.com/mbleigh/seed-fu/tree
>>
>> To load them I use the following my features/steps/env.rb. I reload
>> them for every scenarios:
>>
>> Before do
>>
>> ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(ActiveRecord::Base.configurations['test'])
>> ActiveRecord::Schema.verbose = false
>> load "#{RAILS_ROOT}/db/schema.rb"
>> Dir[File.join(RAILS_ROOT, "features/fixtures", '*.rb')].sort.each {
>> |fixture| load fixture }
>> end
>>
>> My fixture files live in features/fixtures/ and each looks like:
>>
>> # my_model.rb
>> MyModel.transaction do
>> MyModel.seed_many(:id, [
>> { :name => "blah", :id => 1 },
>> { :name => "foo", :id => 2
>> ])
>> end
>>
>> I use seed_fu for seeding production data as well. I don't use it in
>> the sense of Rails fixtures. I use it in the sense of "the app needs
>> this data to even run, period." Seems maybe this is what you're
>> looking for,
>>
>> Zach
>
> This isn't quite what I'm looking for. I'd actually like to be able to
> use the fixtures in spec/fixtures , just as I can for plain old specs.
> With specs, you can define which fixtures to use in each "describe"
> block, using something like
>
> describe TodoList do
> fixtures :todo_lists, :todos, :users
>
> it "should return an error when blah blah blah" do
> ...
> end
> end
>
> Are you similarly able to load your YAML fixtures from spec/fixtures
> when you're running a Cucumber feature?
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel Higginbotham
I don't know that it's built into Cucumber, but loading fixtures is
pretty simple from what I remember. Something like
AR::Fixtures.load('path/to/file.yml') or something. Look around and I'm
sure you can find the couple lines to make it work.
Pat
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