Disable migrations when running unit tests in Django 1.7

Question

Django 1.7 introduced database migrations.

When running the unit tests in Django 1.7, it forces a migrate, that takes a long time. So I woul

Answer 1

Here is the end of my settings file :

class DisableMigrations(object):

    def __contains__(self, item):
        return True

    def __getitem__(self, item):
        return None


TESTS_IN_PROGRESS = False
if 'test' in sys.argv[1:] or 'jenkins' in sys.argv[1:]:
    logging.disable(logging.CRITICAL)
    PASSWORD_HASHERS = (
        'django.contrib.auth.hashers.MD5PasswordHasher',
    )
    DEBUG = False
    TEMPLATE_DEBUG = False
    TESTS_IN_PROGRESS = True
    MIGRATION_MODULES = DisableMigrations()

based on this snippet

I disabled migrations only when tests are running