Andrew, Running 'manage.py test' will create new tables, but not a new database. It can't create a new database, since it doesn't know what settings to use for that new database. However, your data stored in your database won't get overwritten since you will be using a temporary table.
Best, Will On Jun 19, 2008, at 7:16 AM, Andrew D. Ball wrote: > > Good afternoon. > > I thought that unit tests run by 'manage.py test' create > a test db that is separate from the production database > by default, prepending 'test_' to the database > name specified by settings.DATABASE_NAME or using > settings.TEST_DATABASE_NAME for the name of the > new database. > > I'm using Django 0.96.1, and 'python manage.py test' > will complain unless the production database > is created and I've run 'manage.py syncdb'. > > Any idea why? > > Peace, > Andrew > -- > =================================== > Andrew D. Ball > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Software Engineer > American Research Institute, Inc. > http://www.americanri.com/ > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
