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Standup 01/12/2009: require & class reloading, acts_as_fu
edit Posted by Abhijit Hiremagalur on Monday January 12, 2009 at 11:52PM

Interesting Things

  • Using 'require' explicitly interferes with class reloading in Rails

Frederick Cheung discusses this in more detail here. This might be related to the Selenium + class reloading issues some pivots have experienced in recent weeks. The alternative is to rely on Rails automagic loading or 'require_dependency'.

  • acts_as_fu makes writing database independent tests for models is easier

Props to pivot Pat Nakajima for creating acts_as_fu.