http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:48:12 GMT DZone Snippets: object code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/1135 If you're seeing errors like this when you run Rails tests: <br /> <br /><code> <br /># NoMethodError: You have a nil object when you didn't expect it! <br /></code> <br /> <br />You might need to edit test/test_helper.rb to make sure use_instantiated_fixtures is true: <br /> <br /><code> <br />self.use_instantiated_fixtures = true <br /></code> <br /> <br />Prior to 1.0, Rails automatically created instance variables out of fixtures. So if you had a fixture record named "foo", you could access it in your test as "@foo". As of 1.0, the default is to disable that feature, which breaks a lot of existing code. Mike Clark <a href="http://clarkware.com/cgi/blosxom/2005/10/24#Rails10FastTesting" title="Mike Clark's Weblog: Faster Testing with Rails 1.0">explains the change</a>. Wed, 11 Jan 2006 06:43:42 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/1135 brainpipe ()