Rails unit testing doesn't load fixtures

Question

rake test:units fails in my current application, because the needed data of the fixtures is missing.

If I\'m loading the fixtures manually via rak

Answer 1

Another approach is to write your own custom rake task for testing.

For example:

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task :test_units do

  RAILS_ENV = 'test' # Force the environment to test

  puts "Recreate the test database"
  Rake::Task['db:test:prepare'].invoke

  puts "Seed the database with fixtures"
  Rake::Task['db:fixtures:load'].invoke

  puts "Executing Unit Tests"
  Rake::Task['test:units'].prerequisites.clear 
  Rake::Task['test:units'].invoke
end

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