Re: 2.0 "Testing Controllers" documentation suggestion/correction

On Oct 28, 6:50 am, Thiago Campezzi <campe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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-contr...
>
> 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 :)

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