From development DB to test DB during tests

Rails
1

Hello, even after several months of Rails development I’m still facing
few problems with unit testing.

  1. Inserting records during migration

My migration.rb is
def self.up
create_table :rubriques do |t|
t.column “libelle”, :string
t.column “rubrique_id”, :integer
t.column “visible”, :boolean
end

Rubrique.create(:libelle => ‘root’, :rubrique_id => nil, :visible =>
true)
end

Problem is : the ‘root’ record is never inserted in the test database
even when using rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=“test” or rake test:purge and
then rake test:units

Why ? No idea

  1. Second common problem :
    I use fixtures which are loaded accordingly during unit testing. But
    when running functional tests which don’t use any :fixtures statement,
    it’s common to have the fixtures datas still loaded in the test
    database.
    The only solution I found was adding delete_existing_fixtures() in the
    setup() method… No the ‘right’ way in my point of view…

Any help appreciated, thank you !

2

rake test:units / test:functionals blasts the test database away and
rebuilds the schema from the development database (aka, no data). This
does
not use migrations; it uses db/schema.rb. If you want data in the test
db,
you need to either use fixtures or manually create the data in your
tests
(basically the same thing, when you think about it).

Jason