Thanks, Jeremy! That's very helpful!

On Wednesday, 29 July 2015 20:37:51 UTC-4, Jeremy Evans wrote:
>
> 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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