djangodjango-testing

How to configure "manage.py test" to run with sqlite? (Django)

I use Postgres for production and development, but I'd like to use sqlite to run some tests. I don't see an easy way to configure one engine for tests and another for dev / production. Am I missing something? Is there an environment variable to set, or some easy way that doesn't involve another settings.py file?

Solution

  • Append the following lines in your settings:

    import sys
if 'test' in sys.argv or 'test_coverage' in sys.argv: #Covers regular testing and django-coverage
    DATABASES['default']['ENGINE'] = 'django.db.backends.sqlite3'

    Make sure your actual database setting comes before them.