On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Max Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using before(:all) because i want to create a single 'family' of tree > objects and then run tests against it. If i have all the object creation as > a before(:each) then the database will be even more full of duplications, > won't it?
No. If you have use_transactional_fixtures set to true, each example is run in a transaction, which is rolled back at the end of the example. This does not happen for you implicitly when you use before(:all) because there is no mechanism for running a group of examples in a transaction. > My problem, though, is that the data is left over from the last time (in > fact all previous times) that i ran the spec file, where i thought that it > was cleared out. Do i need to explicitly tell the database to clear all the > records in an 'after' block? Yes. If you want to use before(:all) to set up data, you need to use after(:all) to clean it up explicitly. Please beware that this approach is extremely error prone over time. If you ever introduce a side effect (intentionally or accidentally) that modifies the data, you're going to look at the spec, see the data you're setting up and incorrectly think that that's the data every example is using. It is much, much safer (and more sane) to use before(:each) even though it may slow things down a bit. HTH, David > > > > On 26/02/2008, David Chelimsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Edvard Majakari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > My problems seem to be arising from the fact that when i run the test, > the > > > > objects i created last time are still in the database. Shouldn't > they be > > > > cleared out automatically? This in turn is preventing me from saving > root > > > > > > I don't know RSpec that well, but I'd guess before(:all) is run only > > > once in a describe block (and as such torn down only after the block > > > is finished), whereas before(:each) is run before every example (and > > > torn down respectively). So, I guess you'll want to use before(:each) > > > version. > > > > > > Was that it? > > > > > > Yep. Use before(:each) and all should be well. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > "One day, when he was naughty, Mr Bunnsy looked over the hedge into > > > Farmer Fred's field and it was full of fresh green lettuces. Mr > > > Bunnsy, however, was not full of lettuces. This did not seem fair." > > > -- Terry Pratchett, Mr. Bunnsy Has An Adventure > > > _______________________________________________ > > > rspec-users mailing list > > > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > rspec-users mailing list > > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
