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Tag: rails

  • Passing Additional Arguments to FactoryGirl Factories

    I wanted to create a factory that would link various states to my model, but from a specified list instead of automatically generated. I discovered that these are transient attributes: FactoryGirl.define do factory :business do name “MyString” # # # trait :with_states do ignore do state_list [] end # add association equal to state code…

  • Rails 4, Empty Hashes, Strong Parameters, exception_notification and filtering out my new ActionController::ParameterMissing errors

    I’m finally coming around to the “strong parameters” pattern encouraged (required?) in Rails 4. One thing that I did notice was that missing the base parameter raised an ActionController::ParameterMissing error. I discovered this via controllers tests generated by rspec-rails when I created a controller scaffold, which generates tests for “Invalid Params”: In the controller spec:…

  • method_missing: undefined method `increment_open_transactions` database_cleaner

    When using database_cleaner (0.9.1) with rails (4.1.0) {my home path}/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.1.0/lib/active_record/dynamic_matchers.rb:26:in `method_missing’: undefined method `increment_open_transactions’ for ActiveRecord::Base:Class (NoMethodError) from {my home path}/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/database_cleaner-0.9.1/lib/database_cleaner/active_record/transaction.rb:13:in `start’ from {my home path}/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/database_cleaner-0.9.1/lib/database_cleaner/base.rb:73:in `start’ from {my home path}/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/database_cleaner-0.9.1/lib/database_cleaner/configuration.rb:75:in `block in start’ from {my home path}/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/database_cleaner-0.9.1/lib/database_cleaner/configuration.rb:75:in `each’ from {my home path}/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/database_cleaner-0.9.1/lib/database_cleaner/configuration.rb:75:in `start’ Somehow we were using an old version of database_cleaner, gem “database_cleaner”,…