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Andrea Elias
Andrea Elias

Reputation: 11

How to clean test database, but not entirely, only the data generated by the tests with RSPEC and Capybara

I have an application in rails 5.2.6 to which I am doing the test with RSPEC and Capybara and for it I have a test database with data that I use to perform the tests and I am running some tests that generate data that are stored in this database. What I need is that after running the tests these data are not stored in it.

I have used the gem database_cleaner but this cleans all the data of the test db and I only want to erase the data that are generated by the tests.

part of my database.yml:

development:
  <<: *default
  database: f_development
  host: localhost
  port: 5432
  username: postgres
  password: postgres

test:
  <<: *default
  database: f_test
  host: localhost
  port: 5432
  username: postgres
  password: postgres

Upvotes: 1

Views: 835

Answers (1)

Alex Govorov
Alex Govorov

Reputation: 26

Check your spec/rails_helper.rb configure section. Looks like you have set

config.use_transactional_fixtures = false

What means to not execute every test in transaction so data stays in the database.

Default behavior for this setting is true.

Yo can read how it work here

Another solution what can help you: you can setup seeding data before running test like described here

Upvotes: 0

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