Hi --
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, Paul Williams wrote:
>
> I have spent sometime this afternoon learning how to unit test rails
> applications and integrate the Cerberus CI tool. One key area confuses
> me however, and I would appreciate other peoples views of how best to
> overcome the issue.
>
> My understanding is that the ''test'' and
''test:units'' have the
> db:test:prepare pre-requisite which copies the schema from dev to the
> test database. I would prefer to use migrations to perform the building
> of the test schema, and I have tried
> ''http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2031'' to use
migration building.
> However, this still attempts to use ''dropdb'' and
''createdb'' commands
> when using the rake test. I know this is some kind of setup /
> registration problem, but I wanted confirmation that these kind of
> ''tweaks'' to the rails app is the best way of implementing
the migration
> control over the test db.
>
>
> What are your thoughts and apologies if there are similar posts on this
> topic, but I have spent some time searching!!!!
I''m probably guilty of taking a very unsophisticated approach but what
I normally do is:
rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=test
David
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