William Stuart Lazar billsaysthis
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/ builders.rb
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October 1, 2010 15:52
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| # Rails developers have long had bad experiences with fixtures for | |
| # several reasons, including misuse. | |
| # | |
| # Misuse of fixtures is characterized by having a huge number of them, | |
| # requiring the developer to maintain a lot of data and creating dependencies | |
| # between tests. In my experience working (and rescuing) many applications, 80% | |
| # of fixtures are only used by 20% of tests. | |
| # | |
| # An example of such tests is one assuring that a given SQL query with | |
| # GROUP BY and ORDER BY conditions returns the correct result set. As expected, |