Test does not load many to many fixture

Question

I am using Test to test my application. I have some fixtures: users.yml, roles.yml, roles_users.yml. The users and roles are loaded but not the many to many table roles_users so the users are not related to any role. With Rails console in development everything is ok, in test any user is not connected to any role. I can see the users and roles in the test database but roles_users is empty

Do I have to specify somewhere how to load this fixture?

Answer 1

If you're using Rails >=2.2 and a standard HABTM association between users and roles, you shouldn't need the roles_users.yml file. Instead, add a roles line for each user in users.yml:

sally:
  roles: admin, editor
  ...

fred:
  roles: basic
  ...

The values are the names of your role fixtures. I'm not completely sure this will solve your problem, but it's cleaner at the very least.