Wes Gamble wrote:
I want to submit a patch for Rails.
I have checked out from the trunk.
I have created what I assume is the test database based on contents of activerecord/test/fixtures
QUESTIONS:
1) I'm not sure how to actually attempt to run the tests. Where do I configure the DB connection to point to my test database?
If you go into the activerecord directory, there's a file called RUNNING_UNIT_TESTS. In there, it says:
== Creating the test database
The default names for the test databases are "activerecord_unittest" and "activerecord_unittest2". If you want to use another database name then be sure to update the connection adapter setups you want to test with in test/connections/<your database>/connection.rb. When you have the database online, you can import the fixture tables with the test/fixtures/db_definitions/*.sql files.
Assuming you're running MySQL, this means that you have to create two new databases called 'activerecord_unittest' and 'activerecord_unittest2'. Then, import the starting structure/data in from the provided SQL files using commands like:
mysql -u root -p activerecord_unittest < test/fixtures/db_definitions/mysql.sql mysql -u root -p activerecord_unittest2 < test/fixtures/db_definitions/mysql2.sql
If you look in the connections.rb file in test/connections/native_mysql/connection.rb, you'll see that it is set up by default to use a user 'rails' with no password. So make a user 'rails' with no password and grant it permissions on the two new databases.
2) How do I actually run the tests?
Again, in RUNNING_UNIT_TESTS, it says:
The easiest way to run the unit tests is through Rake. The default task runs the entire test suite for all the adapters. You can also run the suite on just one adapter by using the tasks test_mysql_ruby, test_ruby_mysql, test_sqlite, or test_postgresql. For more information, checkout the full array of rake tasks with "rake -T"
So to run the tests using the MySQL adapter, just run
rake test_mysql
Hope that helps.
Chris
