This is the tutorial: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/intro/tutorial05/
I've followed the tutorials pretty much to the letter since tutorial one. Thanks for the help! -Paul On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 10:33:16 PM UTC, jondbaker wrote: > > You're correct in thinking that tests use a test database that is > independent of your formally defined project database. Without knowing > exactly which Django tutorials you are referring to, I can only assume that > perhaps you: > > 1) Have defined initial_data.json fixtures > 2) Have defined other fixtures that your tests are referencing (likely in > their setUp method) > > If none of the items above are correct, feel free to provide a link to the > tutorial you're going through and I'll take a look. > > JDB > > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Paul Sermon > <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> So I'm working my way through the Django tutorials, and have got as far >> as the view tests. It seems that when running the test client, rather than >> returning data from an empty test database (is this what is meant to >> happen?) it is returning polls from the existing database, which has the >> polls created in the previous tutorials. This means the tests that expect >> empty result sets fail. >> >> Any idea why it would be doing this? Am I correct in thinking the test >> should create it's own empty database to test this? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/e1782c5f-d8e7-4fc6-93d8-88d01aafbd4f%40googlegroups.com >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/4031d95b-7f80-4839-a25a-800649e33cf1%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

