On 26/02/2008, David Chelimsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Max Williams > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This does not happen for you implicitly when you use before(:all) > because there is no mechanism for running a group of examples in a > transaction.
ah...i see. I didn't know about that last bit. :) > My problem, though, is that the data is left over from the last time (in > > fact all previous times) that i ran the spec file, where i thought that > it > > was cleared out. Do i need to explicitly tell the database to clear all > the > > records in an 'after' block? > > > Yes. If you want to use before(:all) to set up data, you need to use > after(:all) to clean it up explicitly. > > Please beware that this approach is extremely error prone over time. > If you ever introduce a side effect (intentionally or accidentally) > that modifies the data, you're going to look at the spec, see the data > you're setting up and incorrectly think that that's the data every > example is using. It is much, much safer (and more sane) to use > before(:each) even though it may slow things down a bit. Gotcha. Thanks! HTH, > > David > > >
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