David and Matt,
ok, i was under the impression that rspec would clean up the database.
Got it working now, thanks for the help...
On Mar 16, 11:10 am, Matt Wynne <m...@mattwynne.net> wrote:
> On 15 Mar 2010, at 12:34, David Chelimsky wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 7:24 AM, jollyroger
> > <timo.roess...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> Hey guys,
>
> >> unfortunately I've got one more issue with rspec right now.
>
> >> It seems like rspec isnt properly cleaning up the database after each
> >> spec.
>
> >> I have the following spec:
>
> >> ###################################################################
> >> describe ProfilesController do
> >> describe "GET 'index'" do
> >> it 'should render active profiles' do
> >> active_user = Factory(:user, :active => 1)
> >> active_user.profile = Factory.build(:profile)
> >> inactive_user = Factory(:user, :active => 0)
> >> inactive_user.profile = Factory.build(:profile)
> >> get 'index'
> >> assigns[:profiles].should == [active_user.profile]
> >> end
> >> end
> >> # ......
> >> end
> >> ###################################################################
>
> >> This spec fails with:
>
> >> ###################################################################
> >> 'ProfilesController GET 'index' should render active profiles' FAILED
> >> expected: [#<Profile id: 83, user_id: 80, real_name: "Wendy Moore",
> >> country: "Yemen, Rep.", icon_file_name: nil, icon_content_type: nil,
> >> icon_file_size: nil, icon_updated_at: nil, description: "I've gotten
> >> burned over Cheryl Tiegs and blown up f...", personal_website_url:
> >> "www.google.com", social_network_of_choice: nil, twitter_name:
> >> "Sarah", created_at: "2010-03-15 11:41:56", updated_at: "2010-03-15
> >> 11:41:56">],
> >> got: [#<Profile id: 83, user_id: 80, real_name: "Wendy Moore",
> >> country: "Yemen, Rep.", icon_file_name: nil, icon_content_type: nil,
> >> icon_file_size: nil, icon_updated_at: nil, description: "I've gotten
> >> burned over Cheryl Tiegs and blown up f...", personal_website_url:
> >> "www.google.com", social_network_of_choice: nil, twitter_name:
> >> "Sarah", created_at: "2010-03-15 11:41:56", updated_at: "2010-03-15
> >> 11:41:56">, #<Profile id: 37, user_id: 37, real_name: nil, country:
> >> nil, icon_file_name: nil, icon_content_type: nil, icon_file_size:
> >> nil,
> >> icon_updated_at: nil, description: nil, personal_website_url: nil,
> >> social_network_of_choice: nil, twitter_name: nil, created_at:
> >> "2010-03-15 11:21:15", updated_at: "2010-03-15 11:21:15">, #<Profile
> >> id: 40, user_id: 40, real_name: nil, country: nil, icon_file_name:
> >> nil, icon_content_type: nil, icon_file_size: nil, icon_updated_at:
> >> nil, description: nil, personal_website_url: nil,
> >> social_network_of_choice: nil, twitter_name: nil, created_at:
> >> "2010-03-15 11:21:15", updated_at: "2010-03-15 11:21:15">, #<Profile
> >> id: 52, user_id: 52, real_name: nil, country: nil, icon_file_name:
> >> nil, icon_content_type: nil, icon_file_size: nil, icon_updated_at:
> >> nil, description: nil, personal_website_url: nil,
> >> social_network_of_choice: nil, twitter_name: nil, created_at:
> >> "2010-03-15 11:21:15", updated_at: "2010-03-15 11:21:15">] (using ==)
> >> ###################################################################
>
> >> As you can see, the problem is that there are more profiles than
> >> actually expected.
>
> >> Running this exact spec alone is ok:
>
> >> ###################################################################
> >> spec spec/controllers/profiles_controller_spec.rb -l 17
> >> .
>
> >> Finished in 7.743924 seconds
>
> >> 1 example, 0 failures
> >> ###################################################################
>
> >> The same goes for the whole spec-file itself:
>
> >> ###################################################################
> >> spec spec/controllers/profiles_controller_spec.rb
> >> ............
>
> >> Finished in 6.108002 seconds
>
> >> 12 examples, 0 failures
> >> ###################################################################
>
> >> A quick debugging via:
>
> >> ###################################################################
> >> it 'should render active profiles' do
> >> custom_log("Profile-count before: #{Profile.count.to_s}")
> >> # ........ see code from before
> >> get 'index'
> >> custom_log("Profile-count after: #{Profile.count.to_s}")
> >> assigns[:profiles].should == [active_user.profile]
> >> end
> >> ###################################################################
>
> >> shows:
>
> >> ###################################################################
> >> Profile-count before: 3
> >> Profile-count after: 5
> >> ###################################################################
>
> >> Apparently the problem is, that there are still previously created
> >> profiles around.
>
> >> As far as I've understood rspec, shouldn't the database be properly
> >> cleaned up after each spec?
> >> In other words, shouldn't there be zero profiles before running the
> >> spec from above?
>
> > rspec-rails hooks into rails' transaction management, rolling back
> > transactions after every example. It does not guarantee that your
> > database is empty - just that it is in the same state after each
> > example that it was in before. Now there are a couple of caveats here:
>
> > 1 - you have to have "config.use_transactional_fixtures = true" in
> > spec/spec_helper.rb
>
> > This is rails' nomenclature and really means "run each example in a
> > transaction"
>
> > 2 - if you use before(:all) anywhere in your suite, that code is _not_
> > run in a transaction and it is up to you to destroy any data you
> > create.
>
> 3. If you make any dirty little direct SQL calls (using
> ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute) while the example runs, that
> will commit the transaction so it's won't be rolled back.
>
> cheers,
> Matt
>
> http://mattwynne.net
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