On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Andrew Selder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Downloaded the latest plugins from Github and got the same results.
>
> The spec rake task still ends up calling db:test:prepare which blows away
> the database and reloads only the schema.
Well, thanks for trying.
You can't be the first person to run up against this problem. I've run
into it before but not in any rails apps I've worked on.
Sounds like the solution would be something like what Scott and Ashley
are talking about - introducing rake db:migrate or a custom data setup
task after or instead of db:test:prepare.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew
>
> On May 22, 2008, at 9:58 AM, David Chelimsky wrote:
>
>> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Andrew Selder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>> David,
>>>
>>> The static data generated in the migrations in being wiped away.
>>>
>>> I did a
>>> rake db:test:purge
>>>
>>> followed by
>>>
>>> rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=test
>>>
>>> and then looked in my database to verify that the data was there and it
>>> was.
>>>
>>> And then when I run rake spec, the test blow up and I looks at the DB and
>>> all the static tables are empty.
>>>
>>> Looking at the rspec.rake file in the rspec_on_rails plugin, the spec
>>> task
>>> calls the spec_prereq task. This task does a db:test:prepare, which
>>> looking
>>> at the source for that in the rails gem only copies the schema from the
>>> development db.
>>>
>>> I'm using Rails 2.1 RC1, and the tagged CURRENT version of both plugins.
>>
>> AHA!
>>
>> CURRENT means the latest release, which is 1.1.3, which was released
>> months ago, before Rails 2.1 RC1.
>>
>> Try the latest from github:
>>
>> script/plugin install git://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec.git
>> script/plugin install git://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec-rails.git
>> script/generate rspec
>>
>> See if that makes any difference.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> David
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Andrew
>>>
>>> On May 22, 2008, at 9:32 AM, David Chelimsky wrote:
>>>
>>>> On May 21, 2008, at 9:49 PM, Andrew Selder wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Is it possible to specify that certain tables not be cleared on each
>>>>> example.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've inherited a project where a good amount of enumerated data is
>>>>> stored
>>>>> in the database (US States, statuses, about 15-20 tables worth. Over
>>>>> all,
>>>>> it's a reasonable decision that leads to solid production code
>>>>> (acts_as_enumerated is good). This data is read-only and relatively
>>>>> static;
>>>>> any changes to these tables are done via migrations.
>>>>>
>>>>> The problem comes when I'm writing my tests. Obviously all these tables
>>>>> get wiped with each example.
>>>>
>>>> This should not be the case. Transactions get rolled back, but tables do
>>>> not just get wiped clean.
>>>>
>>>> If this static data is being generated in migrations, then you should be
>>>> OK. Is it?
>>>>
>>>>> Yes, I could specify these as fixtures, but I really don't want to have
>>>>> to specify 15-20 fixtures on every example. Yes, I could mock/stub all
>>>>> the
>>>>> values, except that I use many of these values at class definition
>>>>> time,
>>>>> which means that errors are thrown before I can even mock/stub.
>>>>>
>>>>> For instance, I have a statement like this.
>>>>>
>>>>> named_scope :open, :conditions => ["lead_status_id IN (?)", %w{New
>>>>> Incubating Client UAG}.collect{|x| LeadStatus[x].id}]
>>>>>
>>>>> Which loads the named_scope using the string version of the enumeration
>>>>> for clarity's sake. It works great, except for testing.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anybody see anyway around this other than creating a fixture file
>>>>> for each of these tables and loading all the fixtures on each describe
>>>>> block. Not only does this make for ugly code, but I'm sure it takes a
>>>>> good
>>>>> chunk of time to setup and teardown each of the tables each example.
>>>>>
>>>>> It would be wonderful if there was some option to specify tables that
>>>>> behave like this, that should be loaded at the beginning of the test
>>>>> run,
>>>>> and (optionally) trashed at the end of the run. Or even better, specify
>>>>> that
>>>>> the test script shouldn't touch (build or teardown) these tables at
>>>>> all, and
>>>>> let their migrated state remain.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Andrew
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