rspec users - Oct 2008 - What makes specs run against the test database?

I just did a test where I ran one spec and deep deep within the code
under test, I printed out the DB connection of the AR class of a given
object, like so:

puts invoice.class.connection.inspect

My spec requires spec_helper.rb, which supposedly sets the Rails
environment to be "test".

However, the output of that inspect looks like this:

.#<ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::MysqlAdapter:0x46625e8
@last_verification=1
223509519, @logger=#<ActiveSupport::BufferedLogger:0x3590008 @buffer=[],
@no_blo
ck=false, @level=0, @auto_flushing=1,
@log=#<File:X:/log/development.log>>, @run
time=0.0,
@quoted_table_names={"draft_invoices"=>"`draft_invoices`"},
@connectio
n=#<Mysql>,
@quoted_column_names={"draft_invoices"=>"`draft_invoices`"},
@query_
cache_enabled=false, @config={:password=>"blah",
:username=>"root",
:adapt
er=>"mysql", :database=>"my_db_development",
:encoding=>"utf8",
:host=>"mach
ost", :allow_concurrency=>false},
@connection_options=["machost",
"root", "r3n&s
t1mpy", "aafes_vss_development", nil, nil]>

Notice

@config={:password=>"blah", :username=>"root", :adapt
er=>"mysql", :database=>"my_db_development",
:encoding=>"utf8",
:host=>"mach
ost", :allow_concurrency=>false}

which shows that I am hitting my development database.  Why would I see
this output when running a spec that AFAIK, should be running against
the test DB?

Thanks,
wes
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On 2008-10-08, at 19:50, Wes Gamble wrote:
> I just did a test where I ran one spec and deep deep within the code
> under test, I printed out the DB connection of the AR class of a given
> object, like so:
>
> <..snip..>
>
> which shows that I am hitting my development database.  Why would I  
> see
> this output when running a spec that AFAIK, should be running against
> the test DB?
>
> Thanks,
> wes

This sounds like a dumb question, but in database.yml , have you  
confirmed that your test DB is configured for use in the test  
environment?

Cheers,
Nick

Yes.

Nick Hoffman wrote:
> On 2008-10-08, at 19:50, Wes Gamble wrote:
>> I just did a test where I ran one spec and deep deep within the code
>> under test, I printed out the DB connection of the AR class of a given
>> object, like so:
>>
>> <..snip..>
>>
>> which shows that I am hitting my development database.  Why would I see
>> this output when running a spec that AFAIK, should be running against
>> the test DB?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> wes
>
>
> This sounds like a dumb question, but in database.yml , have you 
> confirmed that your test DB is configured for use in the test 
> environment?
>
> Cheers,
> Nick
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