A friendly word of advice: don’t leave empty test fixtures in your Rails projects. In some situations, it can cause unexpected test failures that are quite nasty to track down.
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Interesting… I’ve never seen that (and I leave them littered all over the place). What causes the failure? Inquiring minds want to know :-)
I’m not 100% sure exactly what happened, but the forces of validation, a stale test database, and a legacy table that didn’t allow null values appeared to collide in a perfect storm of testing misery. As soon as I removed the empty test fixture, the skies got clear again.