So I shot about 2 hours today trying to figure out why the use of the [fixture_references](http://wiki.pluginaweek.org/Fixture_references) plugin was causing my fixtures to not load, based on a “Can not convert String to Integer” error. I mucked around with my .yml files, thinking it was in my formatting. Finally giving up, I took a quick peek at the changelog, and discovered the API had changed, but the documentation hadn’t!

In my fixture I was doing what the docs said:

vehicle_make_id: <%= vehicle_makes(:acura)['id'] %>

But the API had changed so it should be:

vehicle_make_id: <%= vehicle_makes(:acura, 'id') %>

This is why I hate when people use blogs as documentation sites versus wikis.. Blogs are temporal in nature, and don’t lend themselves to updates. Hopefully this will spur the developers to update the docs, after all, the plugin is a really nice plugin!

This was a problem with AjaxScaffold as well, but the creator didn’t make the same mistake with ActiveScaffold, the successor project.

Eric Pugh posted this entry on Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 at 4:50 pm. It is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.