+1, this is one of a few things that doesn't "work out of the box" for databases in real-world usage. I always end up having some version of a custom "db:prepare" which does extra necessary things for my apps.
FYI, this thread is somewhat related, in that it's also about confusion about the behavior of the 'test' environment (and also unaddressed): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rubyonrails-core/environment$20agnostic/rubyonrails-core/kqKoJHcQu9U/xx9J2BLOBgAJ -- Chad On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 11:26 AM, Ryan Jones <ryan.michael.jo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Every so often I'll run a test suite and it will have a large number of > failures. After debugging it's normally something as simple as the test > schema being out of date. I then run bin/rake db:test:prepare and > everything is fine. > > If I run my development environment and my schema is out of date, it > throws an error and forces me to run bin/rake db:migrate. Should we be > doing the same thing when we're running tests? Or at the very least maybe > throwing a warning that the test schema is 'out of date'? > > On one of the first apps I was building (a few years ago) I remember > spending a few hours tracking down why my test was failing. I was new to > 'TDD' and I thought it was something I was doing wrong. I called a friend > and he asked 'did you run db:test:prepare?' and that solved my problem. I > don't run into this issue as much anymore, but I think it might prevent > some frustration by new rails users. > > I'm trying to think of why we wouldn't be doing this and my mind is coming > up blank. Let me know your thoughts! > > Thanks, > Ryan > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
