How to create table during Django tests with managed = False

Question

I have a model with managed = False.

class SampleModel(models.Model):
    apple = models.CharField(max_length=30)
    orange = models.CharField(max_length=3         


        

Answer 1

Execute raw SQL to create the table in the test setup:

from django.db import connection

class MyTest(unittest.TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        connection.cursor().execute("CREATE TABLE ...")

    def tearDown(self):
        connection.cursor().execute("DROP TABLE ...")