From 6d9ee4a306672110c97b9dd9af77015208106654 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jamis Buck <jamis@37signals.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 11:49:34 +0000
Subject: Added fixture accessors that can be used when fixture instantiation
 is disabled, "model_name(:fixture_name)"

git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@1383 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de
---
 activerecord/CHANGELOG                     |  8 ++++++++
 activerecord/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 activerecord/test/fixtures_test.rb         |  7 +++++++
 3 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/activerecord/CHANGELOG b/activerecord/CHANGELOG
index 82c8e5b6df..d44d966f5c 100644
--- a/activerecord/CHANGELOG
+++ b/activerecord/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 *SVN*
 
+* Added fixture accessor methods that can be used when instantiated fixtures are disabled.
+
+    fixtures :web_sites
+
+    def test_something
+      assert_equal "Ruby on Rails", web_sites(:rubyonrails).name
+    end
+
 * Added DoubleRenderError exception that'll be raised if render* is called twice #518 [Nicholas Seckar]
 
 * Fixed exceptions occuring after render has been called #1096 [Nicholas Seckar]
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb
index ce79efc648..30b587b4ec 100755
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb
@@ -129,6 +129,16 @@ require 'csv'
 #   - to keep the fixture instance (@web_sites) available, but do not automatically 'find' each instance:
 #       self.use_instantiated_fixtures = :no_instances 
 #
+# Even if auto-instantiated fixtures are disabled, you can still access them
+# by name via special dynamic methods. Each method has the same name as the
+# model, and accepts the name of the fixture to instantiate:
+#
+#   fixtures :web_sites
+#
+#   def test_find
+#     assert_equal "Ruby on Rails", web_sites(:rubyonrails).name
+#   end
+#
 # = Dynamic fixtures with ERb
 #
 # Some times you don't care about the content of the fixtures as much as you care about the volume. In these cases, you can
@@ -401,8 +411,10 @@ module Test #:nodoc:
       self.pre_loaded_fixtures = false
 
       def self.fixtures(*table_names)
-        self.fixture_table_names |= table_names.flatten
-        require_fixture_classes
+        table_names = table_names.flatten
+        self.fixture_table_names |= table_names
+        require_fixture_classes(table_names)
+        setup_fixture_accessors(table_names)
       end
 
       def self.require_fixture_classes(table_names=nil)
@@ -415,11 +427,25 @@ module Test #:nodoc:
         end
       end
 
+      def self.setup_fixture_accessors(table_names=nil)
+        (table_names || fixture_table_names).each do |table_name|
+          table_name = table_name.to_s.tr('.','_')
+          define_method(table_name) do |fixture, *optionals|
+            force_reload = optionals.shift
+            @fixture_cache[table_name] ||= Hash.new
+            @fixture_cache[table_name][fixture] = nil if force_reload
+            @fixture_cache[table_name][fixture] ||= @loaded_fixtures[table_name][fixture.to_s].find
+          end
+        end
+      end
+
       def setup_with_fixtures
         if pre_loaded_fixtures && !use_transactional_fixtures
           raise RuntimeError, 'pre_loaded_fixtures requires use_transactional_fixtures' 
         end
 
+        @fixture_cache = Hash.new
+
         # Load fixtures once and begin transaction.
         if use_transactional_fixtures
           load_fixtures unless @already_loaded_fixtures
diff --git a/activerecord/test/fixtures_test.rb b/activerecord/test/fixtures_test.rb
index e1f2f6d24c..6de231a4fb 100755
--- a/activerecord/test/fixtures_test.rb
+++ b/activerecord/test/fixtures_test.rb
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ require 'fixtures/topic'
 require 'fixtures/developer'
 require 'fixtures/company'
 require 'fixtures/task'
+require 'fixtures/reply'
 
 class FixturesTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
   fixtures :topics, :developers, :accounts, :tasks
@@ -130,6 +131,12 @@ class FixturesWithoutInstantiationTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
   def test_fixtures_from_root_yml_without_instantiation
     assert_nil @unknown
   end
+
+  def test_accessor_methods
+    assert_equal "The First Topic", topics(:first).title
+    assert_equal "Jamis", developers(:jamis).name
+    assert_equal 50, accounts(:signals37).credit_limit
+  end
 end
 
 
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