On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Tadatoshi Takahashi <[email protected]> wrote: > > About Steve's comment, > I may not be familiar with everything in Ruby on Rails but I am willing > to learn.
FWIW, I absolutely did not mean my comment as an insult, to you or anybody else. I was going a bit more general, and wasn't referring specifically to you. Anyway, in my own head "new user" is _never_ an insult. Everybody starts there. It's like insulting someone for having been born. > And I would like to know in which case it would be better to run RSpec > in an environment other than test one. I can see cases where some specialized behaviors might run in specific environments -- for instance, maybe you have a routine task in your staging environment that copies data from the production environment, etc. If those behaviors are non-trivial, it makes sense to spec and test them. But if they're initialized in your environment config files, you're then stuck either with doing backflips to try to fake out Rails, or running your specs in that environment. That's just one hypothetical case off the top of my head. Doubtless there are others that might be logical. (And a whole lot more that wouldn't be, but someone would surely try them anyway.) > To me, I like clear separation of development, test, and production > environment in Ruby on Rails. > And I like to run Specs in test environment because for every run of a > spec (example), database is cleaned up and doesn't affect the result of > running the next spec (example). And I don't want the development > database to be cleaned up by running RSpec against it. And you're absolutely right. On all of that. Anything different would be an exception, not the rule. It sounds to me like you're pretty grounded in the principles of Rails -- don't sell yourself short. -- Have Fun, Steve Eley ([email protected]) ESCAPE POD - The Science Fiction Podcast Magazine http://www.escapepod.org _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
