Mysql and Auto_Increment woes

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I’ve had to deal with this from the beginning of my work with Rails and Mysql, but now it’s really putting me on full stop. I’ve started using Selenium and Selenium IDE to do system testing of my rails site (highly recommended, pick up selenium_on_rails plugin). Selenium IDE, when you click on a link, basically grabs the entire a tag to make sure it knows what link to click on. For this situation, it’s:

//a[@onclick=“new Ajax.Request(‘http://localhost:5000/portal_tables/14/records/1’, {asynchronous:true, evalScripts:true, method:‘get’}); return false;”]

The problem is “portal_tables/14”. The portal_tables table is rebuilt before each test (fixtures), which means in MySQL that the id each portal_table gets is now different. So when Selenium goes to click on this link I told it to look for, it can’t find it because the link is now:

//a[@onclick=“new Ajax.Request(‘http://localhost:5000/portal_tables/26/records/1’, {asynchronous:true, evalScripts:true, method:‘get’}); return false;”]

So, how do I stop this from happening? Is there a mysql server configuration I can set that resets auto_increment when a table is cleared? This is one of the more annoying “features” of MySQL vs Postgres (in which I’ve never seen this problem before).

I’m sure others have hit this problem, is it easily solvable?

Jason

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The problem is "portal_tables/14". The portal_tables table is rebuilt before each test (fixtures), which means in MySQL that the id each portal_table gets is now different. So when Selenium goes to click on this link I told it to look for, it can't find it because the link is now:

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So, how do I stop this from happening? Is there a mysql server configuration I can set that resets auto_increment when a table is cleared? This is one of the more annoying "features" of MySQL vs Postgres (in which I've never seen

You have IDs hard coded in your fixtures, right? You could try using a snippet like this:

    ActiveRecord::Base.connection.tables.each do |table|       max_id = ActiveRecord::Base.connection.select_value("SELECT MAX(id) FROM #{table}").to_i       ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute "ALTER TABLE #{table} SET auto_increment = #{max_id+1}"     end

Dan Manges http://www.dcmanges.com/blog