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Kirill Fuchs
Kirill Fuchs

Reputation: 13686

Laravel 4 testing controllers which call a model

I'm having some trouble getting a test to work in Laravel 4. I'm using .env files to manage my DB settings the way it is described in Laravel's Configuration manual - Protecting Sensitive Configuration

The app/config/database.php file looks like:

'mysql' => array(
    'driver'    => 'mysql',
    'host'      => $_ENV['dbhost'],
    'database'  => $_ENV['database'],
    'username'  => $_ENV['dbusername'],
    'password'  => $_ENV['dbpassword'],
    'charset'   => 'utf8',
    'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
    'prefix'    => '',
),

The controller method being tested:

public function getTaxonomies()
{
    if (Input::has('page')) {
        $limit = (Input::get('limit')) ? Input::get('limit') : 15;

        $taxonomy = Taxonomy::with('photos')->paginate($limit)->toArray();

        return Response::json(array(
            'Taxonomies' => $taxonomy
        ));
    }

    return Response::json(array(
        'Taxonomies' => Taxonomy::all()->load('photos')->toArray()
    ));
}

The test:

<?php

# app/tests/controllers/TaxonomyControllerTest.php

class TaxonomyControllerTest extends TestCase
{
    public function testGetTaxonomies()
    {
        $this->action('GET', 'TaxonomyController@getTaxonomies');

        $this->assertResponseOk();
    }
}

The error I'm getting is ErrorException: Undefined index: dbhost. I realize this is because the $_ENV var is not being populated in CLI. So my question is, how am I supposed to handle db creds for testing?

Update:

So I added an empty database.php file to my app/config/testing folder and now I'm no longer getting that error. I'm assuming it's because the database isn't being called anymore? Should I just be using mockery to test with data?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 278

Answers (1)

kunemata
kunemata

Reputation: 756

Note: You may create a file for each environment supported by your application. For example, the development environment will load the .env.development.php file if it exists.

Just create .env.testing.php file and write your test database credentials in it.

return array(

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Database Credentials
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    */
    'dbhost'     => '127.0.0.1',
    'database'   => 'database',
    'dbusername' => 'username',
    'dbpassword' => 'password',

);

Upvotes: 2

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