On Thursday 27 March 2014 01:39:53 Bernie Sumption wrote:
> > I'd be willing to keep the current contract of "things without a
> > migrations directory don't get migrated", but I suspect you're doing
> > things
> > on apps that already have migrations (which makes my reticence to add a
> > setting even bigger - if you "syncdb" an app with migrations to a main
> > database, you have forever ruined the migration tracking on it). Would
> > that
> > work? Or do you want to do this on apps which are already several
> > migrations along? (If that's the case, I suspect we might have to look at
> > re-introducing --update, which is going to be near-impossible to do before
> > release with the new creation system).
>
> You're right, I'm creating an app with migrations but want to be able to
> run tests without migrations when I'm mid-development. I also agree that if
> I'm running integration tests before deployment, or a non-developer is
> running tests before installing something written by someone else then
> those tests should use migrations, so it's not as simple as "don't use
> migrations in tests".
>
> How about specifying whether a database is migrated as part of the database
> definition in the settings module? That way a database would either be
> migrated or not, and if a developer wants to set up an alternative
> non-migrated database for development there's a supported way of doing it.
>
> Something like:
>
> # in settings_bernie_dev.py
> from .settings import *
> DATABASES = {
> 'default': {
> 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
> 'NAME': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'testdb.sqlite3'),
> 'USE_MIGRATIONS': False,
> }
> }
>
I think a flag on the test command would be much more appropriate for the use-
cases you describe -- we don't want to send the message that disabling
migrations in tests is ok for a setup, although it may be ok for a given test-
run (basically, like running test for just a single app is ok).
Shai.
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