Chapter 8 - test_helper causing monster crash

[bovine_duck]

Page 295 adding test/test_helper.rb causes nothing to work

Exception is:
NameError (uninitialized constant Test):
app/helpers/test_helper.rb:4:in `<top (required)>'
app/controllers/application_controller.rb:2:in `<class:ApplicationController>'
app/controllers/application_controller.rb:1:in `<top (required)>'
app/controllers/stories_controller.rb:1:in `<top (required)>'

My test_helper looks like:

ENV["RAILS_ENV"] = "test"
require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../config/environment")
require 'test_help'
 
class Test::Unit::TestCase
  self.use_transactional_fixtures = true
  self.use_instantiated_fixtures  = false
  fixtures :all
 
  def get_with_user(action, parameters = nil, session = nil, flash = nil)
    get action, parameters, :user_id => users(:patrick).id
  end
  def post_with_user(action, parameters = nil, session = nil, flash = nil)
    post action, parameters, :user_id => users(:patrick).id
  end
end

I have modified the line so it finds environment but that just causes another error.

Thanks for any help anyone might have. I hate feeling so helpless!

[Mittineague]

Hi bovine_duck, welcome to the forums

From the best I can tell, that code looks exactly like what I have that works.

The book was written for Ruby 1.8.6 and Rails 2.0.2
(Although I have Ruby 1.8.6 and Rails 2.1.0 and as I said, that code works for me)


There have been a lot of changes since the book was written, are you running 1.8.6 and 2.0.2 ??

[bovine_duck]

Yes, I am using Ruby 1.9.x and Rails 2.2.3 I will attempt to downgrade ruby and try again. Thanks for your help