Hey all,
I am having a little trouble getting some referential integrity tests
to work well.
Right now, I am using Postgres as my database. I have generated
migrations for my tables and ensured referential integrity by using
execute commands. All is working well at the level of the database
and application. I can get all the checks to work flawlessly if I set
up my test database by issuing "rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=test".
However, if I do the more traditional approach by issuing "rake
db:test:prepare and rake db:test:load," this seems to load the
information from the schema.rb file. This file does not seem to
contain the foreign key constraints (or other db constraints, for that
matter).
Any thoughts on getting this to work properly and getting the
schema.rb file to recognize all the db checks?
I can imagine that this will be an issue at the time of production,
because the schema.rb file will not be usable for setting up the
production database. It seems to me, I would have to run the
migrations...
Thanks,
Andrew
Hey all,
I am having a little trouble getting some referential integrity tests
to work well.
Right now, I am using Postgres as my database. I have generated
migrations for my tables and ensured referential integrity by using
execute commands. All is working well at the level of the database
and application. I can get all the checks to work flawlessly if I set
up my test database by issuing "rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=test".
However, if I do the more traditional approach by issuing "rake
db:test:prepare and rake db:test:load," this seems to load the
information from the schema.rb file. This file does not seem to
contain the foreign key constraints (or other db constraints, for that
matter).
The ruby schema dumper doesn't understand things that activerecord
doesn't, which includes foreign key constraints (There's a plugin
somewhere that adds foreign key support to active record). One way
around this is to set the schema dumper format (in environment.rb)
RAILS_ENV.sql will be generated, using your database's tools.
Fred