Override the default rails 'rake test' command to start dependencies

rubyonrails-talk
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Hey guys,

I'd like to be able to override the default test task with something that starts the dependencies required for testing our app. I've been googling a bit and playing around with rake but I can't get it to play ball.

I put a file in lib/tasks/testing.rake with the following command.

Does anyone know a solution for doing something like this? I'm sure this must be a common thing :slight_smile:

Thanks, Dave

desc 'Test all units and functionals' task :test do   puts "Starting ferret server..."   system "RAILS_ENV=test script/ferret_start"   exceptions = ["test:units", "test:functionals", "test:integration"].collect do |task|     begin       Rake::Task[task].invoke       nil     rescue => e       e     end   end.compact

  exceptions.each {|e| puts e;puts e.backtrace }   raise "Test failures" unless exceptions.empty? end

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I've found this useful in the past for redefining tasks (third item when I google for "rake redefine tasks")

http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2032

Michael Glaesemann grzm seespotcode net

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Excellent, thanks Michael just what I was looking for!

I guess redefine was the magic word I didn't try. :slight_smile: