[LRUG] Handling opening and closing of transactions manually in ActiveRecord

[Tim Cowlishaw]

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Matthew Willson <matthew at playlouder.com> wrote:
> Can't speak for datamapper, or for RSpec infact, but here's a little test mixin we use with Sequel and test/spec in case a similar approach works.
>
> module TransactionalTestCase
>  def run(*args, &block)
>    database.transaction do
>      super
>      raise Sequel::Error::Rollback
>    end
>  end
> end
>

Aah interesting! sadly it's not a technique that's transferrable over
to rspec / AR, but very elegant nonetheless. I recently switched back
to using test/unit and stories from rspec  and cucumber for a personal
project recently, and this nicely illustrates one of the reasons why -
the syntax, while being a bit more verbose than rspec's, actually
allows you to do things like this in a simple ruby-ish way, rather
than messing around with the implementation of their DSL.