Embracing Chaos

I’m posting this because I didn’t see any quick answers on google when looking for other people having my problem. Recently all the unit tests for one of my Ruby on Rails projects started failing mysteriously. The continuous integration server didn’t report any problems, but on my windows dev box (where I use instant rails) nothing would pass. The errors came out like: 15) Error: test_update(Admin::ConnectionControllerTest): ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: Mysql::Error: Lost connection to MySQL server during query: DELETE FROM connections c:/dev/fritz/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb:120:in `log’ c:/dev/fritz/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:184:in `execute’ c:/dev/fritz/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:199:in `delete’ c:/dev/fritz/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:283:in `delete_existing_fixtures’ c:/dev/fritz/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:256:in `create_fixtures’ c:/dev/fritz/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:256:in `create_fixtures’ c:/dev/fritz/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/database_statements.rb:51:in `transaction’ c:/dev/fritz/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:255:in `create_fixtures’ c:/dev/fritz/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active_record/base.rb:794:in `silence’ c:/dev/fritz/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:248:in `create_fixtures’ c:/dev/fritz/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:565:in `load_fixtures’…

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