Hi Guys,
Is it normal for Rails to create and delete the test database during rake tests? It seems to be case when I started to run it.
Is there a way for the Rails not to create and delete databases during testing? I am little uncomfortable granting that much power to the rails user for testing - I would rather that it use the existing database and just delete/recreate tables instead.
- Rilindo
Testing is all about creating and destroying data. And you may learn soon that the best thing to do is to have a separate database for testing. Read the paragraph 2.1 of this page for a better understanding. http://guides.rubyonrails.org/testing.html#the-three-environments
In database.yml you can specify a different user for test and production. The production user can then just have whatever permissions he requires to run the app.
Colin