Fixture, a simple fixture for rspec and others

What is it?

It

• is a very simple and lightweight fixture easy to use
• can be used under various situations
• requires no other libraries

Installation

gem install fixture

How to use

write fixture

#spec/fixtures.rb

Fixture.manage User do
  assign :user1 do
    name 'Taro Yamada'
    email { #this is a block }
    created_at Time.now
  end

  assign :user2 do
    name { Faker::Name.name + 's' }
    email Faker::Internet.email
    deleted true
  end
end

Fixture.manage Post do
  assign :post1 do
    title 'title1'
    body '....'
    user_id { Fixture.get(:user1).id }
  end
end

Of cource, you can add many records at once by like this.

Fixture.manage User do
  1000.times do |i|
    assign "user#{i+1}".to_sym do
      name  Faker::Name.name
      email Faker::Internet.email   
    end
  end
end

And you can put it as separate files in other directory.

Fixture automatically loads

• spec/fixtures.rb
• spec/fixture/*.rb
• test/fixtures.rb
• test/fixture/*.rb

load fixture

#spec/spec_helper.rb
require 'fixture'   
Fixture.load

if you don't want to insert records but use model's instances,

Fixture.prepare

instead of Fixture.load.

use fixture

#spec/models/user_spec.rb

describe User do
  let (:user) { Fixture.get(:user2) }
.....

Assumption

Fixture assumes that model classes

• have accessor methods to each attributes(i.e; columns of record)
• have save! or save method to insert new record