# contents of test/fixtures/authors

--- 
xandr:
  id: 1 
  name: xandros

# contents of test/unit/test_authors:

require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../test_helper'

class AuthorTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
  fixtures :authors

  def setup
    @xandr= @authors["xandr"]
  end

  # Replace this with your real tests.
  def test_truth
    # assert_kind_of Author, @authors["xandr"] # ===> also failure if I comment the line in setup
    assert_kind_of Author, @xandr
  end
  
end

# error:
  1) Error:
test_truth(AuthorTest):
NoMethodError: You have a nil object when you didn't expect it!
You might have expected an instance of Array.
The error occured while evaluating nil.[]
    ./test/unit/author_test.rb:7:in `setup_without_fixtures'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.2/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:548:in `setup'