How do I run Rails integration tests without dropping DB contents?

Question

I\'ve written some integration tests that I\'d like to run against a copy of my prod database before I push to production. This lets me test all of my routes are still corre

Answer 1

To get this to work I had to specifiy the environment when calling the rake task, otherwise it would run the migrations on the development db and then run the tests on the test db; given the example from above

namespace :dbtest do
  Rake::TestTask.new(:integration => "db:migrate") do |t|
    ...

I had to execute the tests like so

rake environment RAILS_ENV=test dbtest:integration