[rspec-devel] Rspec blowing away my initial data

[Scott Taylor]

On Jun 6, 2008, at 4:31 PM, Maurício Linhares 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.
>

Actually, you won't need to destroy it in the after block as long as  
you have transactional_fixtures = false in spec_helper.rb

Scott


> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 5:21 PM, weexpectedthis <weexpectedthis at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
>>
>> I have this code in the only migration I have in my app:
>>
>>   create_table :states do |generic_table|
>>     generic_table.with_options :null => false do |t|
>>       t.string :name
>>       t.datetime :created_at, :updated_at
>>     end
>>   end
>>
>>   State.create!(:name => 'New')
>>   State.create!(:name => 'Submitting')
>>   State.create!(:name => 'Reviewing')
>>   State.create!(:name => 'Implementing')
>>   State.create!(:name => 'Finished')
>>
>> When I run `rake test` it builds my test database with the  
>> migration I have
>> correctly.  But then when I run `rake spec` and look at the  
>> database, the
>> initial data (all of the States) are missing.
>>
>> So my questions are:
>> 1) Does rspec blow away my initial data before it runs tests?
>>
>> 2) How can I get it to stop doing that?
>
>
>
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