# Instructions for running SQLServer AR adapter unit tests

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instructions-for-running-sqlserver-ar-adapter-unit-tests/130601>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 29, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instructions-for-running-sqlserver-ar-adapter-unit-tests/130601 "2008-02-29T18:47:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/7ab992/32.png) [@weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/weyus)\
**Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instructions-for-running-sqlserver-ar-adapter-unit-tests/130601/1 "2008-02-29T18:47:16Z")

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I would like to submit a patch for the SQLServer AR adapter.

In order to do that, I would like to run the unit tests.

I read the “RUNNING\_UNIT\_TESTS” file in the SQL Server adapter  
distribution, and I’m not exactly sure how to proceed. Here’s the part  
that I’m having trouble with:

"== Requirements

The tests of this adapter depend on the existence of rails edge. All the  
tests  
defined by rails edge are re-used. For this to work the following  
directory  
structure is assumed to exist:

#{RAILS\_ROOT}/vendor/plugins/adapters/sqlserver  
#{RAILS\_ROOT}/vendor/rails/activerecord/test"

So, currently, I have a checked out version of the Rails trunk in one  
project, and a checked out version of the SQL Server adapter trunk in  
another project. Neither of these has a vendor directory, since neither  
of these is a Rails app.

(FYI: I have never run edge).

Do I need to create a Rails app., then set it up to run edge (so that I  
get rails under the vendor directory)? Why is the sqlserver stuff under  
the plugin directory - do I have to copy it there from my SVN client  
project?

I have the patch - I just need to test it, but I need more detail in  
order to do so.

Thanks,  
Wes G.

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**Author:** ![weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/7ab992/32.png) [@weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/weyus)\
**Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 10:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instructions-for-running-sqlserver-ar-adapter-unit-tests/130601/2 "2008-02-29T22:30:51Z")

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So I went ahead and tried some things…

But I’m totally confused.

Am I supposed to put edge Rails into the Rails trunk project I have,  
which is not even a Rails project itself? The activerecord tests are in  
the Rails trunk - so there’s not even a vendor directory in there to put  
stuff into.

Conversely, creating a separate _Rails_ project, freezing that to edge,  
and then shoehorning in a copy of the sqlserver adapter into the plugins  
(?) directory doesn’t work since, as mentioned above, there are no  
activerecord tests.

Is this file structure supposed to be some merge of the Rails trunk and  
a Rails project?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,  
Wes