On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Justin Ko <jko...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Feb 13, 2012, at 10:35 PM, David Chelimsky wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Justin Ko <jko...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Feb 13, 2012, at 1:16 PM, Patrick J. Collins wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I was writing an integration test for my user signup form (with >>>> capybara), and found that my test was failing due to a validation error: >>>> "email is already taken". I'm a bit confused because I thought when I >>>> run "rspec spec/some_spec.rb", the test database would be wiped clear? >>>> >>>> Is that not the case? >>>> >>>> Patrick J. Collins >>>> http://collinatorstudios.com >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> rspec-users mailing list >>>> rspec-users@rubyforge.org >>>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users >>> >>> You basically have two options to ensure a clean database: >>> >>> 1.) Transactional examples: >>> >>> RSpec.configuration.use_transactional_examples = true >>> >>> 2.) DatabaseCleaner: >>> >>> RSpec.configure do |config| >>> config.before { DatabaseCleaner.start } >>> config.after { DatabaseCleaner.clean } >>> end >>> >>> Look into what those do. Let us know if you get stuck. >> >> What Justin says is true if you're running in the same process. If >> you're using Capybara to run examples in-bro.wser, then option 2 will >> work for you, but option 1 will not. > > You can still do this with an AR patch. Look at the "Transactions and > database setup" in the Capybara README.
"This may have thread safety implications and could cause strange failures, so use caution with this approach." > Using DatabaseCleaner with truncation is SLOW. True, but you can minimize that by using transaction by default, and specifying truncation for in-browser scenarios (which are already far slower than will be impacted by truncation). > >> _______________________________________________ >> rspec-users mailing list >> rspec-users@rubyforge.org >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
