Rails rake testing without database
Continuing from the previous post, it appears that the rake testing tasks are also tightly coupled to active record.
This feels quite dirty, but I’ve managed to get round it by manipulating the tasks from the outside (they are buried in the rails libs).
To replicate, create a new file called ‘default.rake’ in the lib/tasks/ directory within your rails project, and paste in the following code.
Rake::Task::TASKS.delete('default')
Rake::Task[:test_units].instance_variable_set(:@prerequisites, [])
Rake::Task[:test_functional].instance_variable_set(:@prerequisites, [])
task :default do
Rake::Task[:test_units].invoke rescue got_error = true
Rake::Task[:test_functional].invoke rescue got_error = true
raise "Test failures" if got_error
end
Because this relies on the internal implementation of rake (instance variable names and TASKS constant) it might well do very bad things to versions that aren’t 0.6.2.
Update 17:20
Just realised that I don’t need most of the code above. All you actually need in default.rake is as follows. Stoopid Chris.
Rake::Task[:test_units].instance_variable_set(:@prerequisites, []) Rake::Task[:test_functional].instance_variable_set(:@prerequisites, [])
