starting rails in test environment
- by Brian D.
I'm trying to load up rails in the test environment using a ruby script. I've tried googling a bit and found this recommendation:
require "../../config/environment"
ENV['RAILS_ENV'] = ARGV.first || ENV['RAILS_ENV'] || 'test'
This seems to load up my environment alright, but my development database is still being used. Am I doing something wrong?
Here is my database.yml file... however I don't think it is the issue
development:
adapter: mysql
encoding: utf8
reconnect: false
database: BrianSite_development
pool: 5
username: root
password: dev
host: localhost
# Warning: The database defined as "test" will be erased and
# re-generated from your development database when you run "rake".
# Do not set this db to the same as development or production.
test:
adapter: mysql
encoding: utf8
reconnect: false
database: BrianSite_test
pool: 5
username: root
password: dev
host: localhost
production:
adapter: mysql
encoding: utf8
reconnect: false
database: BrianSite_production
pool: 5
username: root
password: dev
host: localhost
I can't use
ruby script/server -e test
because I'm trying to run ruby code after I load rails. More specifically what I'm trying to do is: run a .sql database script, load up rails and then run automated tests. Everything seems to be working fine, but for whatever reason rails seems to be loading in the development environment instead of the test environment.
Here is a shortened version of the code I am trying to run:
system "execute mysql script here"
require "../../config/environment"
ENV['RAILS_ENV'] = ARGV.first || ENV['RAILS_ENV'] || 'test'
describe Blog do
it "should be initialized successfully" do
blog = Blog.new
end
end
I don't need to start a server, I just need to load my rails code base (models, controllers, etc..) so I can run tests against my code.
Thanks for any help.
