Moving fixtures inside a pack

[matiaseche]

Hello! I've been experimenting with this gem for a while now, and for the past few days I've been trying to add the test fixtures inside my pack, but with no success :disappointed:

I currently have something like the following:

- app/
- bin/
- config/
- db/
- lib/
- logs/
- packs/
  - test_pack/
    - app/
    - config/
    - test/
      - controllers/
      - factories/
      - fixtures/
        - users.yml # Does not work
      - helpers/
      - jobs/
      - mailers/
      - models/
- public/
- test/
    - controllers/
    - factories/
    - fixtures/
    - helpers/
    - jobs/
    - mailers/
    - models/

If I move the users.yml file to the test/fixtures in the root then it loads correctly, but if I try it inside the pack I get an error where it says undefined method 'users' for #<UserTest ... > after running the test.

Is this something that can't be done with the current state of the gem? I am trying to make several packs since I am working on a very big project, and having the fixtures inside the pack would make it easier to write and check the state of the fixtures that are needed for each pack.

[alexevanczuk]

Hey @matiaseche thanks for opening up this discussion!

I don't believe this is something that is supported out of the box with packs-rails, but it makes a ton of sense for this gem to support Rails fixtures!

I haven't used Rails fixtures before – do you know where/how the directory where they are located is configured, or what API can be used to set that directory? If you wanted to submit a PR to add this functionality I'd love to incorporate it. We could also pair on it and try to get it working together if you wanted.

[matiaseche]

Hey @alexevanczuk, to be honest I don't know much about how fixtures are configured and setup, but I am happy to contribute.

I searched about it, and found that there is a path stored under ActiveSupport::TestCase.fixture_path where the fixtures are read (I got this from the ActiveRecord documentation).

I tried to force it to another path like packs/my_pack/test/fixtures but with no luck. I will continue to make different changes and research, if I come up with something useful I will write it here :wink:

[gap777]

@matiaseche I was able to do this in ./spec/rails_helper:

config.fixture_path = "#{Rails.root}/packs/applications/media_planner/spec/fixtures"

And use fixtures as I would expect them to be used, from within that pack's tests. However, it appears that the fixtures are loaded by looking in a single location. I don't know that we can configure the fixture_path to be an array of directories.

[alexevanczuk]

Hey folks, since it sounds like there is a limitation in the upstream Rails API, I'd like to close this issue out for now. When/if Rails can get an upstream patch supporting multiple fixture directories, I'd love to have packs-rails automatically configure this to allow packs to store their own fixtures. Until that happens, I'm not sure there's much we can do here to support this.

[nathanpalmer]

Looks like you can use multiple fixture path directories in Rails 7.1

https://api.rubyonrails.org/v7.1.0/classes/ActiveSupport/TestCase.html#method-c-fixture_paths-3D