[rspec-devel] Rspec blowing away my initial data

[Yi Wen]

Yes, it is exactly my situation. All I can do is to write a rake task
on my own to run all specs without destroying the db first (instead,
do rake db:migrate:reset)

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 3:45 PM, weexpectedthis <weexpectedthis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Fixtures are evil, at least in my opinion.  And this isn't data I want loaded
> in each test, it's data that is basically storing constants in my database.
> I need this to be in the migration, but I don't want to have to enter the
> data in the migration and in a fixture as well.
>
> -Kyle
>
>
> Maurício Linhares-3 wrote:
>>
>> This isn't an rspec feature, every time you run your rails app tests
>> it will drop the whole database and rebuild it again (based on the
>> development database) but only the structure will be copied, no data
>> will be copied and no migrations are run.
>>
>> If you want to add test data to your specs you should use fixtures
>> instead or just add your data in a "before" block and remove it in an
>> "after" block.
>>
>
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