Numeric values in fixtures cause error about active_scaffold HOT 4 CLOSED

That s because in dev mode you are receiving a parameter hash which includes only strings.
In your test case you are not passing a string, but instead a number, which activescaffold does nt like. Your fix might lead to trouble in case of localized number formats. In that case activescaffold expects the number to be in a special format.

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I don't quite understand. You're saying in dev mode the param hash is in strings, but in testing it is not, right? I do get the same error even if I put the number in quotes in the fixture. Is the hash in production mode in strings, also? If so, how would forcing value to be a string cause a problem? What is the right way to construct the test fixture?

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Unfortunetly, there is nt currently the "right" way. If you a re in dev or prod mode, user is entering values into a form. These values are passed to the server and activescaffold tries to read these string values and assign them to an activerecord object.
In test mode you are not entering values into a form, instead you are using a fixture in your case, which is basically an activerecord object at the end.
ActiveScaffold is nt prepared to receive attribute values directly from an activerecord object.
I do not think it will be a big change, though....

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