django unit tests without a db

Question

Is there a possibility to write django unittests without setting up a db? I want to test business logic which doesn\'t require the db to set up. And while it is fast to setu

Answer 1

From django.test.simple

  warnings.warn(
      "The django.test.simple module and DjangoTestSuiteRunner are deprecated; "
      "use django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner instead.",
      RemovedInDjango18Warning)

So override DiscoverRunner instead of DjangoTestSuiteRunner.

 from django.test.runner import DiscoverRunner

 class NoDbTestRunner(DiscoverRunner):
   """ A test runner to test without database creation/deletion """

   def setup_databases(self, **kwargs):
     pass

   def teardown_databases(self, old_config, **kwargs):
     pass

Use like that :

python manage.py test app --testrunner=app.filename.NoDbTestRunner