Question

Someone asked this question here:

How to load db:seed data into test database automatically?

But their solution only works if you are going to run db:test:prepare which depends on a schema to load. Mongoid doesn’t have a schema file, and db:test:prepare doesn’t do anything and so this is not working. Is there another strategy that would work?

Answer 1

Just as a FYI, I figured out a way to meet my requirements. I set up a database called seed like so in mongoid.yml:

 databases:
    seeds:
      database: seeds_db
      host: localhost
      port: 27018

Then in my model I just have the datase use seeds like:

class SeededData
  include Mongoid::Document
    set_database :seeds

This actually works great because production, test, and development are all pulling from the seed database, which is what I want. And I’m never vacuuming out the data when running tests.