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If you're using Rails >=2.2 and a standard HABTM association between users and roles, you shouldn't need the roles_users.yml file. Instead, add a roles line for each user in users.yml:

sally:
  roles: admin, editor
  ...

fred:
  roles: basic
  ...

The values are the names of your role fixtures. I'm not completely sure this will solve your problem, but it's cleaner at the very least.

Alex Reisner 2010-02-10 14:43:24

Yes, Rails 2.4 is not loading the HABTM. However I was able to force that behaviour in my environment.rb using;ENV['FIXTURES'] ||= 'roles_users'

rtacconi 2010-02-10 15:05:49

When using your solution the roles_users table instead of having:user_id = 1, role_id = 1has:user_id = 1232342, role_id = 1Why user_id has that weired id?The test fails because role_id 1 in not connected to user_id 1

rtacconi 2010-02-10 15:48:32

When using fixtures in Rails, the accepted practice is to NOT assign an explicit ID to each object, but let Rails do it for you. It will base the ID on the name of the fixture so you can load a fixture by name in a test (eg: `users(:fred)`, or `roles(:admin)`). You will end up with some long numbers for IDs, but you never have to know them--you can use fixture names instead of IDs in your tests, which makes them easier to read.

Alex Reisner 2010-02-10 16:01:40

Thanks Alex, another guy said that and I was the main problem. They told me to use factory_girl

rtacconi 2010-02-14 14:37:11

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