On 15 Jan 2009, at 20:54, Greg Hauptmann wrote:
> 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? It's a per subclass of Test::Unit::TestCase setting. IIRC (for test/ unit at least) rails will reload fixtures for you between tests. Fred > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
