hehe, tbh even if the documentation had been there i probably wouldn't have read it :)
thanks! On 26/02/2008, David Chelimsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:08 AM, Max Williams > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > 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. :) > > > FYI: http://rspec.lighthouseapp.com/projects/5645-rspec/tickets/310 > > Cheers, > > David > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > rspec-users mailing list > > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users >
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