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Ruby

Active record errors when running integration tests

When I ran the custom routes test it returned a bunch of errors like this:

) Error: test_that_/login_route_opens_the_login_page(CustomRoutesTest): ActiveRecord::Fixture::FormatError: ActiveRecord::Fixture::FormatError /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/fixtures/file.rb:60:in validate' /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/fixtures/file.rb:47:inrows' /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/fixtures/file.rb:29:in each' /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:670:inblock (2 levels) in read_fixture_files' /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/fixtures/file.rb:20:in open' /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:669:inblock in read_fixture_files' /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:668:in each' /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:668:inread_fixture_files' /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:548:in initialize' /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:482:innew' /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:482:in block (2 levels) in create_fixtures' /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:479:inmap' /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:479:in block in create_fixtures' /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb:168:indisable_referential_integrity' /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:476:in create_fixtures' /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:895:inload_fixtures' /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:849:in setup_fixtures' /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/activesupport-3.2.8/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:418:inrun1782971306501394296setup103271970326843332callbacks' /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/activesupport-3.2.8/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:405:in `_run_callback' /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/activesupport-3.2.8/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:385:in _run_setup_callbacks' /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/activesupport-3.2.8/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:81:inrun_callbacks' /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/activesupport-3.2.8/lib/active_support/testing/setup_and_teardown.rb:35:in `run'

They don't appear to be in any of the Treebook files, and no failures were returned in the test. Any advice on what I need to fix to get rid of these?

3 Answers

Jason Seifer
STAFF
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Hey Gus, can you zip up your treebook project and email it to help@teamtreehouse.com?

Thanks, Jason. Just sent!

Jason Seifer
STAFF
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Hey Gus,

Your fixtures were indented using tabs instead of spaces. This can happen if your editor is set to use tabs instead of spaces for indentation. Try doing a find and replace for tab characters in the test/fixtures/users.yml and test/fixtures/statuses.yml files.