Testing is all about creating and destroying data. And you may learn soon that the best thing to do is to have a separate database for testing. Read the paragraph 2.1 of this page for a better understanding. http://guides.rubyonrails.org/testing.html#the-three-environments
On Jul 29, 2:43 am, rilindo foster <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Is it normal for Rails to create and delete the test database during > rake tests? It seems to be case when I started to run it. > > Is there a way for the Rails not to create and delete databases during > testing? I am little uncomfortable granting that much power to the > rails user for testing - I would rather that it use the existing > database and just delete/recreate tables instead. > > - Rilindo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

