Question

Is there a way to have capistrano run unit tests on my Rails app when I run cap deploy, and fail if they don’t pass? I know this can and should be done by the deployer, but I’d love it to be automatic. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: I ended up using this as a solution.

Answer 1

This capistrano task will run the unit tests on the server being deployed, in production mode:

desc "Run the full tests on the deployed app." 
task :run_tests do
 run "cd #{release_path} && RAILS_ENV=production rake && cat /dev/null > log/test.log" 
end

Found the solution here: http://marklunds.com/articles/one/338

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