Re: save out a test database?

2011-06-04 Thread Margie Roginski
At the time I asked the question I just had the sense that I wanted to debug an issue by bringing up the web interface midway through my test. I attempted to do things like stop midway through the test via set_trace() and then ctrl-c, then look at the db from a runserver run that was pointing to

Re: save out a test database?

2011-06-04 Thread Karen Tracey
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Margie Roginski wrote: > Karen Tracy, if you are reading this, could you comment? > > As the person that seems to be most knowledgable about django testing > (your Django 1.1 Testing book is fantastic - I highly recommend it!), > can you

Re: save out a test database?

2011-06-03 Thread Steve Bywater
What I've done to do this is insert a pdb.set_trace() right before the place your test fails, then in pdb do Ctrl+C to break out of the test. This leaves your test database intact at that state. Then you can change your settings to point to the test database instead of your regular one. Then you

Re: save out a test database?

2011-06-02 Thread Margie Roginski
Karen Tracy, if you are reading this, could you comment? As the person that seems to be most knowledgable about django testing (your Django 1.1 Testing book is fantastic - I highly recommend it!), can you confirm that something like this is the best way to go? It seems strange to me that there

Re: save out a test database?

2011-06-01 Thread Kirill Spitsin
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 11:59:28AM -0700, Margie Roginski wrote: > That's a good pointer, thanks. However I'm still confused about how I > can actually dump out the data from my test run? For example, say I > have a particular test and I want to dump the data at some certain > point. I can put

Re: save out a test database?

2011-06-01 Thread Margie Roginski
..@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Anyone know if there is a way to save out a test database that is > > created through the django TestCase module? > > I think this gets you close: > > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/ref/django-admin/#testserver-fi... > > django

Re: save out a test database?

2011-05-29 Thread Jason Culverhouse
On May 29, 2011, at 7:13 PM, Margie Roginski <margierogin...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Anyone know if there is a way to save out a test database that is > created through the django TestCase module? > I think this gets you close: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/ref/django-ad

save out a test database?

2011-05-29 Thread Margie Roginski
Anyone know if there is a way to save out a test database that is created through the django TestCase module? IE, say I have a test that runs part way through. I'd like to save it out and then modify my settings.py to refer to the saved out test database and take a look at it via my web client