[rspec-devel] Rspec blowing away my initial data

[Yi Wen]

I didn't always follow Rails convention by keep adding scripts. I just
change existing scripts when needed. I do this when I don't have to
worry about the production yet. :) That's why db:migrate:reset is
needed.

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Pat Maddox <pergesu at gmail.com> wrote:
> You could change the tasks to use db:migrate instead of dropping the db.
>
> Pat
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Yi Wen <hayafirst at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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