rubyruby-on-rails-3.2database-cleaner

Database Cleaner not working in minitest rails


My Minitest controller tests are working fine if I run them alone using rake minitest:controllers but when I run rake minitest:all then I get validation failed error. It is because email is already used in model tests. I used DatabaseCleaner to clean the database but unable to clean database.

My code for database cleaner:

require "database_cleaner"
DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :transaction

class MiniTest::Rails::ActionController::TestCase
    include Devise::TestHelpers

    def setup
      DatabaseCleaner.start
    end

    def teardown
      DatabaseCleaner.clean
    end

Solution

  • Short answer:

    gem install "minitest-around"
    

    Long answer:

    before/after or setup/teardown in minitest are NOT hooks as in rspec, therefore you can't have multiple before/after or setup/teardown in minitest, since what they do is just redefining the method.

    To solve this issue, you can use minitest-around, which adds support for multiple before/after or setup/teardown and around, simply add the gem to your test group:

    # put in your Gemfile
    gem 'minitest-around', group: :test
    

    For setting up the database_cleaner, you can have it as you want, following is an example of the setup:

    # tests/support/database_cleaner.rb
    DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :transaction
    DatabaseCleaner.clean_with(:truncation)
    
    class Minitest::Rails::ActionController::TestCase
      def setup
        DatabaseCleaner.start
      end
    
      def teardown
        DatabaseCleaner.clean
      end
    end
    

    And in your test files:

    # tests/your/test/file_test.rb
    require 'support/database_cleaner'
    
    # assertions here ...
    

    That's it, see the Github for detailed info.