I'm a bit new to the Rails stuff, but what's the expected convention
for running the tests.

I've been doing -
rake db:setup RAILS_ENV=test
rake test:unit RAILS_ENV=test

Just to make sure I'm not fighting the conventions.

On Sep 28, 11:34 am, sax <s...@livinginthepast.org> wrote:
> My guess is that you'd need to add this to your test setup. By
> default, everything is rolled back from your test database after every
> test.
>
> def setup
> `rake db:seed`
> end
>
> With backticks it will run the shell process, and should wait for it
> to finish before proceeding.
>
> Nothing comes up when I search the api docs for 'seed', so for now it
> may just be in rake. It may take some digging in the source to find
> out whether you can seed the database directly from Rails. Or there
> may be a gem that can help.
>
> On Sep 28, 8:20 am, Nathan Beyer <nbe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > We've started using seeds.rb to populate some low-level required data
> > into our database, but we're having some issues with this data getting
> > removed and not re-entered while running the tests.
>
> > Is seeding part of the testing lifecycle or do we have to replicate
> > the seed data in the fixtures as well?
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