[LRUG] Same query, different results

[Jonathan]

No I haven't, but it sounds like a good idea so I'll definitely look into it!

On 23 January 2012 16:40, Glenn Gillen <glenn at rubypond.com> wrote:
> Have you tried running putting the Postgres db on a RAM disk to speed it up?
>
> G
>
> - from my mobile, excuse the spellnig
>
> On 23 Jan 2012, at 08:34, Jonathan <j.fantham at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yeah I've actually just started changing the tests to use that, it's a
>> bit slow because we have a lot of tables in our database (so cascading
>> truncations spread far and wide) but it works and I plan on making the
>> normal specs use transactions which is a step in the right direction.
>> Thanks for the tip though, it seems like the best idea I've come
>> across!
>>
>> On 23 January 2012 16:29, Simon Coffey <simon at tribesports.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Jono,
>>>
>>> On 23 January 2012 16:00, Jonathan <j.fantham at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 23 January 2012 15:53, Richard Taylor <richard at richt.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Is your Retailer created by the spec?  I think the tests are run in a
>>>>> transaction that gets rolled back, so only the db session that created
>>>>> the
>>>>> object will be able to see it, this would explain why you can't see it
>>>>> anywhere else.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yeah it is. It's created in a before(:each).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ok thanks, so I guess can't use transactional specs and I'll need to
>>>> stick with fixtures for now. Pity!
>>>
>>>
>>> Not necessarily - using something like the database_cleaner gem
>>> (https://github.com/bmabey/database_cleaner) you can clean up after each
>>> example using table truncation - there's an example configuration in the
>>> README. My integration tests (cucumber, not rspec, but same diff) run quite
>>> happily using factories and DatabaseCleaner with the truncation strategy.
>>>
>>> Alternatively, there might be some way to force everything to use a shared
>>> DB connection, but it's hard to say without knowing more about your setup.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Simon
>>>
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