On Wednesday, July 29, 2015 at 5:30:11 PM UTC-7, Bill Burton wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I need to test the implementation of an Oracle view and wanted to use 
> Sequel for this purpose. Due to the environment, I can't populate the 
> database with my own data but have to use a copy of the production database 
> to work with which has over 28,000 records in the view being tested. So 
> instead of testing for known results in test data, I was going to use a 
> separate query to get the reference data that would then be compared with 
> the view under test.
>
> In looking at the Dataset class, the .except() instance method looks 
> helpful as a way to compare Datasets but is there a better way?
>
> To drive the tests, I was planning on using minitest but am open to using 
> RSpec.
>

I think using Dataset#except would be a good way of testing this.  If you 
want to test that the two datasets return the same results:

  view_dataset.except(test_dataset).count.must_equal 0
  test_dataset.except(view_dataset).count.must_equal 0

Thanks,
Jeremy

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