http://matthewbass.com/2007/01/19/dont-leave-empty-test-fixtures-in-your-rails-projects/ Musings on software and life... Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:33:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://matthewbass.com/2007/01/19/dont-leave-empty-test-fixtures-in-your-rails-projects/comment-page-1/#comment-1845 Matthew Bass Sat, 20 Jan 2007 23:56:52 +0000 http://www.matthewbass.com/blog/2007/01/19/dont-leave-empty-test-fixtures-in-your-rails-projects/#comment-1845 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. 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.

]]> http://matthewbass.com/2007/01/19/dont-leave-empty-test-fixtures-in-your-rails-projects/comment-page-1/#comment-1844 Nathaniel Talbott Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:41:56 +0000 http://www.matthewbass.com/blog/2007/01/19/dont-leave-empty-test-fixtures-in-your-rails-projects/#comment-1844 Interesting... I've never seen that (and I leave them littered all over the place). What causes the failure? Inquiring minds want to know :-) Interesting… I’ve never seen that (and I leave them littered all over the place). What causes the failure? Inquiring minds want to know :-)

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