How to configure a PostgreSQL test database before testing?

My website uses PostgreSQL and its full-text search. For that to work, I
need to execute some configuration queries in order to configure some
full-text search extensions.

This is what I have written in a migration file to configure the
development database:

class ConfigurePostgresql < ActiveRecord::Migration
def up
execute(“CREATE EXTENSION unaccent;”)
execute(“ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY unaccent (RULES=‘unaccent’);”)
execute(“CREATE TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION es ( COPY = spanish );”)
execute(“ALTER TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION es
ALTER MAPPING FOR hword, hword_part, word
WITH unaccent, spanish_stem;”)
end
end

This works perfectly in develpment.

Now I want to run some search tests, but when I execute my functional
tests, I get an error saying that the extension is not configured:

ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: PG::Error: ERROR: function
unaccent(text) does not exist

Why is not it creating the extension? I have executed rake
db:test:prepare

I have noticed that those execute lines are not included in my
schema.rb.
When I copy them inside the schema.rb, then all tests run correctly. Is
there some way to make this work well without having to copy the
executes
everytime I make a migration?

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 6:49 PM, David M [email protected] wrote:

execute("ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY unaccent (RULES='unaccent');")

tests, I get an error saying that the extension is not configured:

ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: PG::Error: ERROR: function unaccent(text) does
not exist

Why is not it creating the extension? I have executed rake db:test:prepare

i think rake db:test:prepare uses schema.rb to create the test database.
since you added raw sql, this is not added to schema.rb. you should
use
the sql format of schema.rb. more info here

Thanks jim, that solved the problem.

El mircoles, 24 de octubre de 2012 13:11:57 UTC+2, jim escribi: