actually what I really want would be to turn it off on just some tests, i.e. the ones that are going to be doing tests relating to transactions and rollbacks. Don't suppose you know if this is possible? thanks
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:23 AM, David Chelimsky <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Greg Hauptmann > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Just wondering, can one test manual transactions in Rspec/UnitTest noting > > the testing framework wraps its DB work in a transaction & mysql doesn't > > allow nested transactions? > > Wrapping code examples (in rspec) or test methods (in t/u) in a > transaction is the default behavior, but is easily turned off with > config.transactional_fixtures = false. > > The name transactional_fixtures is a bit misleading because its really > about wrapping each method in a transaction whether you're using > fixtures or not. > > If you do turn this off, however, you'll want some code to truncate > the DB after each example (after(:each) in rspec, teardown in > test/unit) to avoid leaking state across examples. > > HTH, > David > > > > > > -- > > Greg > > http://blog.gregnet.org/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Greg http://blog.gregnet.org/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
