Question

I’d like to init the data base once everytime i run tests, rather than every test.
I know with Rspec there is before(:all), but I haven’t been able to get that working. I was wondering if rails had something similar.

Answer 1

All things to run before everything just go in the top of the class

require 'test_helper'

class ObjectTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
  call_rake("db:bootstrap RAILS_ENV=test")

  #set up our user for doing all our tests (this person is very busy)  
  @user = Factory(:user)
  @account = Factory(:account)    
  @user.account = @account
  @user.save

  # make sure our user and account got created 
  puts "||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||"
  puts "| propsal_test.rb"
  puts "|      #{@user.name}"
  puts "|      #{@user.account.name}"
  puts "||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||"