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Rails rake testing without database

Posted by Chris Roos Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:46:00

Continuing from the previous post, it appears that the rake testing tasks are also tightly coupled to active record.

This feels quite dirty, but I’ve managed to get round it by manipulating the tasks from the outside (they are buried in the rails libs).

To replicate, create a new file called ‘default.rake’ in the lib/tasks/ directory within your rails project, and paste in the following code.

Rake::Task::TASKS.delete('default')
Rake::Task[:test_units].instance_variable_set(:@prerequisites, [])
Rake::Task[:test_functional].instance_variable_set(:@prerequisites, [])

task :default do
  Rake::Task[:test_units].invoke      rescue got_error = true
  Rake::Task[:test_functional].invoke rescue got_error = true
  raise "Test failures" if got_error
end

Because this relies on the internal implementation of rake (instance variable names and TASKS constant) it might well do very bad things to versions that aren’t 0.6.2.

Update 17:20

Just realised that I don’t need most of the code above. All you actually need in default.rake is as follows. Stoopid Chris.

Rake::Task[:test_units].instance_variable_set(:@prerequisites, [])
Rake::Task[:test_functional].instance_variable_set(:@prerequisites, [])
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