From 0a6d6082539f68733f44117ee0c7828c89dd3cfb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeremy Kemper Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 07:32:33 +0000 Subject: Beef up test fixtures documentation for test/test_helper.rb git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@2801 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de --- railties/helpers/test_helper.rb | 23 +++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'railties/helpers/test_helper.rb') diff --git a/railties/helpers/test_helper.rb b/railties/helpers/test_helper.rb index 0a4be59572..a299c7f6db 100644 --- a/railties/helpers/test_helper.rb +++ b/railties/helpers/test_helper.rb @@ -3,11 +3,26 @@ require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../config/environment") require 'test_help' class Test::Unit::TestCase - # Turn off transactional fixtures if you're working with MyISAM tables in MySQL + # Transactional fixtures accelerate your tests by wrapping each test method + # in a transaction that's rolled back on completion. This ensures that the + # test database remains unchanged so your fixtures don't have to be reloaded + # between every test method. Fewer database queries means faster tests. + # + # Read Mike Clark's excellent walkthrough at + # http://clarkware.com/cgi/blosxom/2005/10/24#Rails10FastTesting + # + # Every Active Record database supports transactions except MyISAM tables + # in MySQL. Turn off transactional fixtures in this case; however, if you + # don't care one way or the other, switching from MyISAM to InnoDB tables + # is recommended. self.use_transactional_fixtures = true - - # Instantiated fixtures are slow, but give you @david where you otherwise would need people(:david) + + # Instantiated fixtures are slow, but give you @david where otherwise you + # would need people(:david). If you don't want to migrate your existing + # test cases which use the @david style and don't mind the speed hit (each + # instantiated fixtures translates to a database query per test method), + # then set this back to true. self.use_instantiated_fixtures = false # Add more helper methods to be used by all tests here... -end \ No newline at end of file +end -- cgit v1.2.3