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Ruby Build a Simple Ruby on Rails Application Writing Tests Fixtures

Posted by Nikhil Hira
Nikhil Hira
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Fixtures video doesn't make sense to me.

First there are 4 errors that occur because we're shown to set the password and password_confirmation in the fixture. The part of the video that removes this seems to be missing.

Secondly, why would the test for uniqueness fail? We've only created one user in this test, so their profile_name should be unique.

1 Answer

Jason Seifer
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Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Jason Seifer
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Hey Nikhil Hira we fix that later on in the course. The errors come from those being virtual attributes and there are nuances between ruby, rails, and devise versions that may allow that to pass or fail.

The test for uniqueness may fail depending on whether or not you have a user fixture in the database with the same profile name. Fixtures are loaded in to the test database before each test run so there may be a conflict.