On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 4:02 AM, Rick DeNatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 3/20/08, Tero Tilus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Joe Van Dyk wrote:
>  >  > do I have to manually clear out the database after a story runs?
>  >
>  >
>  > I'm wondering the same, but with specs.  Database gets dirty and
>  >  tests start to fail when i repeatedly do rake spec.
>
>  >From what I've seen, the test infrastructure (which RSpec takes from
>  the Rails Test::Unit based code) relies on fixtures to initialize the
>  database BEFORE running tests.
>
>  The setup code clears any tables for which fixtures are declared, then
>  loads those fixtures.
>
>  It's a little counterintuitive that the tables don't get cleared AFTER
>  the test, but I guess it makes sense in that without clearing before
>  loading those tables wouldn't be in a known state at the beginning of
>  the test.
>
>  What I've done is to have fixtures with a single record for tables I
>  want to 'clear'.   Alternatively you can do something like:
>
>        MyModel.delete_all
>
>  For any tables you want to clear, in the before block for tests, or in
>  the xxx_story.rb for stories.

Seems like the tables should get cleared before and after the tests?
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