Thanks Luis
I've just run my entire suite of specs 3 times and got 3 identical sets of
results for the first time in a long time :-)
On 17 January 2011 23:13, Luis Lavena <luislav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Rob Watson <rfwat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi list
> >
> > I find that Redis repeatedly returns inconsistent and unexpected values
> for keys in my test environment. So every time I
> > run a suite of specs, a few of them fail, seemingly randomly. The specs
> are usually very simple, and often just testing
> > the contents of simple string keys in Redis. The results *seem* like they
> might come from a different object or instance
> > variable of the same type/name: so they're always seemingly valid values,
> but don't actually relate to the spec currently
> > being performed. So the spec fails.
> > [snip]
> > Anybody experienced anything similar?
>
> This happened to me but before I setup redis to use a different
> database for my test environment.
>
> I have a specific redis.yml that contains this:
>
> development:
> url: redis://localhost:6769/0
>
> test:
> url: redis://localhost:6769/1
>
> In that way, databases are keep separated from each other.
>
> It is also important that you flush all the keys of your redis
> instance between tests. Similar to what RSpec does for your database,
> you need to perform it for redis.
>
> I do it using a before(:each) { $redis.flushall }
>
> Just to ensure integrity and no leftover from my previous test.
>
> Will be great if you can show a little bit about your specs (exact
> spec code) and configuration so we can try replicate. Sometimes the
> error is there, but hidden somewhere else.
> --
> Luis Lavena
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