On Feb 27, 2009, at 11:41 AM, Matt Wynne wrote:
On 26 Feb 2009, at 18:27, Scott Taylor wrote:
On Feb 26, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Forrest Chang wrote:
Hi all:
Is it possible to run Rails Cucumber spec in a different DB than
the test DB? I'd like to run the rspec and cucumber tests in
parallel in my cc.rb build, and as it is now, I get MYSQL
deadlocks on occasion. I could serialize them, but I'd like the
quicker feedback of running them in parallel.
Why not create a new environment, and set RAILS_ENV="test_cucumber" ?
Scott
We do this, and it's entirely possible, in fact I highly recommend
it. We call our environment 'features'
One gotcha is that rspec-rails and a certain file in rails[1] (which
cucumber requires into Cucumber::Rails::World) will stomp all over
your RAILS_ENV and set it back to 'test', which means that if you do
(and you really shouldn't) have any code that depends on this being
set correctly, it will break.
Yeah, and certain rake tasks won't work, if I recall properly.
RAILS_ENV=another_env rake db:test:prepare still reset the test
database, not the db in another_env.
Scott
I think rspec-rails is now fixed, though you might need to use
David's latest version from github.
Please let me know how you get on running them in parallel for CI,
as I'd also like to do this. At the moment we just use the two
environments for faster feedback when we're regressions testing
locally. How are you thinking about collecting the results, for
example? Piping them to separate files?
Matt Wynne
http://blog.mattwynne.net
http://www.songkick.com
[1]http://github.com/rails/rails/blob/77b0994c7835610982d708ce7ce5cd95e6e99e5a/railties/lib/test_help.rb
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