[rspec-users] Unexplainable failure...at least for me

[Tom Stuart]

On 7 Nov 2007, at 14:49, Chris Olsen wrote:
> So now the question is, why does the data not exist in the test
> database.  The country and province data inserts exist within the
> migration files, ex for countries:

As someone who knows literally nothing about how this all works, I  
still feel confident enough to guess that RSpec doesn't actually run  
any migrations, but rather just clones the schema of the existing  
development database -- so you get something that looks the same but  
contains no data.

As the previous poster mentioned, you need to put the data into  
fixtures and include them; see http://rspec.rubyforge.org/documentation/rails/writing/models.html 
  for examples.

Cheers,
-Tom