2.0 "Testing Controllers" documentation suggestion/correction

Hi everyone,

I was taking a look at the documentation for the test suite in CakePHP
2.0 - more specifically the part about testing controller code:

http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/development/testing.html#testing-controllers

The code example provided in this heading doesn't include the "public
$fixtures" line - if you just copy and paste that example, it will run
using the default database connection instead of the test one. This
might have been omitted to make the example simpler, but I think the
consequences of forgetting this line are potentially very dangerous
(you might delete or update live data accidentally!).

Here's a version of the same example that uses test fixtures, thus
causing the test suite to use the test database connection:

class ArticlesControllerTest extends ControllerTestCase {

public $fixtures = array('app.article');

function testIndex() {
$result = $this->testAction('/articles/index');
debug($result);
}

... and so on until the end of the class

I hope this saves someone some trouble when running and debugging
their tests :)

Cheers,
Thiago

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