Question

I’m new to Ruby on Rails.
I’m trying to set up a simple WebApp via Scaffolding. And using RSpec for my tests. Now after the scaffold command:

rails generate scaffold VideoSegment file_path:string short_name:string description:string

I ran rake db:migrate, but thats clear, bringing the data to my development database.
But the tests where not green before I did:

rake db:test:load

To bring the schema of my development database to the test database. Isn’t there a way to automate this step? Or do I have to load test database again after each scaffold?

PS: Of course I know Scaffold is not doing the finest things, but for my proof of concept need it’s sufficient.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Answer 1

Whenever you run rspec it will prepare the test schema for you using the task: db:test:prepare

So after generating migrations you have to do rake db:migrate to update the development schema and then run you spec which will automatically prepare the test database for you.