something wrong with my fixtures is causing them to behave strangely. The "Score" model joins "Users" with "Assignments" with additional columns for some other information. The fixture looks like this:
Score.yml
one:
assignment: pythag
position: 2
student: natalie
points: 75
This produces an error: ActiveRecord::Fixture::FixtureError: table "scores" has no column named "assignment".
The error makes sense, because my score schema includes a column named, ":student_id", not a column named ":student".
But I'm confused because all of my other fixtures use the same type of relative key that I'm trying to use here. For example, my "assignments" fixtures refer to "seminar," rather than "seminar_id."
assignment.yml
one:
position: 1
name: Pythag
possible: 100
seminar: one
This allows me to easily refer to a specific fixture from my seminars.yml file, so that I don't need to find the strange id number that rails produces. I'd like to do the same with my scores fixtures.
Any ideas on what could cause one fixture to need absolute column names, while the rest of them readily accept relative column names?
Thank you in advance for any insight.
-Jeff
You should define the association in your Score model. Take a look at the documentation, especially this part:
Active Record reflects on the fixture's model class, finds all the belongs_to associations, and allows you to specify a target label for the association (monkey: george) rather than a target id for the FK (monkey_id: 1)