Brian Mcardle wrote: > I'm still a relative newbie to RoR, but I'm finding it a very powerful > tool. We have a couple of RoR applications up and in production, and > we're making good use of the automatic testing to make sure they're bug > free. > > What I would like to do is to test using the MySQL data our users have > entered. Either using that data to create fixtures, or copying the > production db into the test db on every test run. With the test db > recreated on every run, obviously a standard outside dump won't work. > > This would be a far more comprehensive test than the few fixtures we've > manually created. Is there an easy way to do this? >
You really don't want to copy the whole production DB for every run. You might want to take a snapshot of it and use it as a set of production data. Note also that that is the only use case in which I would *ever* recommend touching Rails' fixtures. For routine testing such as you've been doing, you will be a lot happier if you replace your fixtures with factories. > Thanks in advance, > -Brian Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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.
