On Feb 14, 2012, at 9:23 AM, David Chelimsky wrote: > 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).
cucumber-rails has good examples on how to set this up in RSpec: https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-rails/blob/master/lib/cucumber/rails/database.rb It includes AR shared connection and truncation strategies. David, how come rspec-rails doesn't include support for these things as well? I don't really mind setting it up manually, but it does seem to be a necessary pattern for request specs. > >> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
