Are you running your tests on the command line using: $ python manage.py test polls
...or are you trying to run them from a Python shell? It'd be helpful if you could provide the internal link to the area of the page you linked to that you're experiencing the failure at, as well as the output of the error you're receiving and the command that causes it. JDB On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 3:19 AM, Paul Sermon <[email protected]>wrote: > 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]>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]. >>> 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/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. > -- Jonathan D. Baker Developer http://jonathandbaker.com -- 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/CAPMFOb7T4DpbwtMvtmiuzVfA2QsuoyJansjFLurDUPg2uKyD4g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
