On 27 Feb 2009, at 16:54, Scott Taylor wrote:
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
Indeed. I do have a fully-functioning rake db:features:prepare task
which I can share if anyone's interested.
It's kind of a shame - this aspect of Rails is not nearly so
extensible as it looks. I really should spend some effort pushing them
some patches instead of just bodging it in our codebase.
Matt Wynne
http://blog.mattwynne.net
http://www.songkick.com
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