Rails unit testing doesn't load fixtures

Question

rake test:units fails in my current application, because the needed data of the fixtures is missing.

If I\'m loading the fixtures manually via rak

Answer 1

Put the call to fixtures :all in your test class, not the super class (test_helper). My guess is that initialization of the super class isn't working the way you're expecting and that fixtures :all isn't be called. Perhaps try putting the call in the initialize method of test_helper.

My test/test_helper.rb looks like this:

ENV['RAILS_ENV'] ||= 'test'
require File.expand_path('../../config/environment', __FILE__)
require 'rails/test_help'

class ActiveSupport::TestCase
  # Setup all fixtures in test/fixtures/*.yml for all tests in alphabetical order.
  fixtures :all

  # Add more helper methods to be used by all tests here...
end