David Kahn wrote: > On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser > <[email protected]>wrote: > See, your test DB should start out every scenario or test completely > empty, and only create the records needed for that particular test. If > (say) Factory :event also creates a User record for the Event to belong > to, that's fine -- an Event (in this example) can't exist without an > owning User, so we need the User in order to test the Event. We are > creating all necessary records, but only the necessary records.
For the third time: fix your quoting! > > Right, I fully agree with this. So either I should create the roles in > this > case before each test or let the factories create, either way there is a > clean slate. But your Before block is not creating *only* the necessary records for each test. That's why you shouldn't be using it. 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.
