Rails test db doesn't persist record changes
- by nathan.f77
I've been trying to solve a problem for a few weeks now. I am running rspec tests for my Rails app, and they are working fine except for one error that I can't seem get my head around.
I am using MySQL with the InnoDB engine.
I have set config.use_transactional_fixtures = true in spec_helper.rb
I load my test fixtures manually with the command rake spec:db:fixtures:load.
The rspec test is being written for a BackgrounDRb worker, and it is testing that a record can have its state updated (through the state_machine gem).
Here is my problem:
I have a model called Listings. The rspec test calls the update_sold_items method within a file called listing_worker.rb.
This method calls listing.sell for a particular record, which sets the listing record's 'state' column to 'sold'.
So far, this is all working fine, but when the update_sold_items method finishes, my rspec test fails here:
listing = Listing.find_by_listing_id(listing_id)
listing.state.should == "sold"
expected: "sold",
got: "current" (using ==)
I've been trying to track down why the state change is not persisting, but am pretty much lost. Here is the result of some debugging code that I placed in the update_sold_items method during the test:
pp listing.state # => "current"
listing.sell!
listing.save!
pp listing.state # => "sold"
listing.reload
pp listing.state # => "current"
I cannot understand why it saves perfectly fine, but then reverts back to the original record whenever I call reload, or Listing.find etc.
Thanks for reading this, and please ask any questions if I haven't given enough information.
Thanks for your help,
Nathan B
P.S. I don't have a problem creating new records for other classes, and testing those records. It only seems to be a problem when I am updating records that already exist in the database.
