On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Matt Wynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 7 Dec 2008, at 17:56, Tero Tilus wrote:
>
>  2008-12-05 08:32, Jeff Talbot:
>>
>>> I want to clear out the database after every run so my tests are
>>> isolated.
>>>
>>
>> Maybe a minor detail, but I'd suggest you clear out the db _before_
>> each run.
>>
>
> I respectfully disagree :)
>

I respectfully disagree :-) Two reasons:

Firstly, this quickly leads to coupled tests. If test N+1 only passes if
test N cleans up, test N+1 will fail if run in isolation.
Secondly, if each test cleans up after itself, you can't manually look at
the database to figure out why a test fails - there is no data!

Aslak


>
> If I need this done, I can run rake db:test:prepare
>
> I think the tests should clean up after themselves.
>
> As you can see from the thread Ben linked to, it's pretty easy to watch
> what ActiveRecord is doing, and truncate all the tables that have been
> touched during a scenario.
>
>
> Matt Wynne
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