Tell Rspec - don't delete my test_db when before running tests

Question

I populate a database that I want to run rspec tests against.

Rspec seems to delete the db before it starts the tests. How can I tell Rspec not to delete this test_db?

I populate the db outside of Rails / Rspec environment. To build all the factories needed to build up the DB is just not practical for the scope of the project but I would like to test against existing DB.

Answer 1

You can manage clean your database using database cleaner gem, and The documentation recommends the following configuration for rspec as this link, but you change as the following:

RSpec.configure do |config|

  config.before(:suite) do
    DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :transaction
    DatabaseCleaner.clean_with(:truncation)
  end
end

But, I prefer to create your database in test environment before scenario, as example:

describe "specific name for this scenario" do
  before do
    @object = create(:object) # using factory girl as example
  end
end

so, this data'll be generate for each time you run your test-case, read more about creating data for rspec-test.