Question

According to this Rails guide, if you create a fixture, it becomes available in your test class.

I have this fixture in users.yml:

<%   stan = User.new   stan.username = 'stan'   stan.set_hashed_password('mysterio')   stan.email = '[e-mail]' %>  stan:   username: <%= stan.username %>   hashed_password: <%= stan.hashed_password %>   password_salt: <%= stan.password_salt %>   email: <%= stan.email %> 

Following the Rails guide, I’m trying to access it like this:

class SessionsControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase    @user = users(:stan)    # ...  end 

I get this error:

./test/functional/sessions_controller_test.rb:5: undefined method `users' for SessionsControllerTest:Class (NoMethodError)     from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require'     from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'     from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:155:in `require' 

Answer 1

Thanks for the help guys. I realized that I had various declarations and calls structured incorrectly. This isn’t clearly explained in the guide I cited, but apparently users(:stan) only works inside a should block, or in pure Test::Unit inside a test_ method.