How to disable database setup / teardown in unit tests?

Rails
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Hi,

My app uses a read-only database — what I need to test is the
parsing code. I’d like to be able to copy the development database to
test, and run a series of unit tests based on it.

But I can’t see how to stop the test system from clearing the data out
for each test.

Any way to do this?

Thanks.

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There’s a :purge task in databases.rake in
vendor/rails/railties/lib/tasks.
You’ll wan to find a way to avoid calling that when running tests.
I’m interested to see what ideas others might share.

Regards,
Craig

–
Craig D.
Mutually Human Software

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Craig D. wrote:

There’s a :purge task in databases.rake in
vendor/rails/railties/lib/tasks. You’ll wan to find a way to avoid
calling that when running tests.

I’m interested to see what ideas others might share.

Leave your test database read-write, and load it up with the
test/fixtures
system. Then, in setup(), use Mocha to mock your .save methods (and
.update, and
whatever internal methods they all call), and raise a fault if anyone
calls them.

Always think of mocks as a way to “change reality” - to make random dice
crooked, or to change the clock time. Alternately…

Switch the DB to “read-only” in setup() and turn that off in
“tear-down”.

Either way, experiment by trying to .save from a scratch test, to ensure
the
system correctly blows up in your face. The point is to make sure at
production
time it does not!

–
Phlip