Colin Law wrote in post #965538: > On 1 December 2010 20:15, Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected]> > wrote: >> in the correct order, then your sorting is correct. > Probably. I may be wrong but I believe that postgreSQL does not even > guarantee that an unordered query will produce the same results if the > same query is run twice.
Right, SQL databases cannot be assumed to guarantee this. That's why I suggested creating the factories in an arbitrary order, different from what you want to see. > Conceivably therefore I could test without > the order clause and check it fails, then, thinking I had added the > order clause re-run the test and find it pass. I think though as I > said in an earlier post that I can use common sense and assume the > probability of this is so small as to be insignificant. Well, if you create the factories in order, then there's a significant probability of this happening... 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.
