From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-11-09T00:37:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Test::Unit Equivalent of JUnit @AfterClass



On Nov 8, 12:39 am, Ryan Davis <ryand-r...@zenspider.com> wrote:
> On Nov 7, 2007, at 21:55 , Patrick Joyce wrote:
>
> > The reason I need to do this is that Rails leaves old fixture data in
> > the DB after each TestCase is run. This just doesn't seem right to me,
> > as I think each TestCase should start with the same state, but that is
> > another issue. The immediate problem is that this can cause tests to
> > fail if there are foreign key constraints. For example:
>
> No, it isn't another issue... it is bug 2404 in the rails bug db.
>
> http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/2404

It's our favorite bug Ryan!

Yep, going OT here...

That bug alone really made my Rails test suite suffer for an existing
app. I don't even try to implement FK's at the database layer any more
with Rails as a result.

I wonder if Merb fixed this...

Regards,

Dan