#113 ✓wontfix
Amos King

Being able to get to the db when in selenium mode.

Reported by Amos King | January 7th, 2009 @ 11:09 PM

As a develper running webrat in selenium mode I would like to be able to access the database for assertions

Right now this isn't possible:


require 'test_helper'

class PeopleIntegrationTest < ActionController::IntegrationTest
  
  context "context no records" do
    setup do
      Person.create!(:name => 'Mike Gaffney')
      visit(people_path)
      click_link("Create New")
      fill_in('Name', :with => "Amos King")
      click_button('Create')
      sleep 10
    end
    should 'respond with success' do
      assert_equal '200', response.code
    end
  end
  
end

The Person Mike Gaffney doesn't exist.

Comments and changes to this ticket

  • Bryan Helmkamp

    Bryan Helmkamp January 17th, 2009 @ 11:06 AM

    Amos -- You're saying the Person.create! won't work?

    When using Selenium, you've got to disable "transactional fixtures" (even if you're not using Rails fixtures).

  • Amos King

    Amos King January 17th, 2009 @ 12:12 PM

    create! works within one transaction, but when running in selenium mode there are two transactions. One is within the app server-db connection. The other is within the Test::Unit-db connection. This means that the create doesn't end up going across to the other connection.

    This ticket is to find a way to either get a single connection to the database, and therefore one transaction or to automatically role back any objects created in the test.

    I think this is a change that is far in the future, and needs a lot of research, and possibly a lot of code.

  • gaffo

    gaffo May 7th, 2009 @ 02:56 PM

    • Tag set to featurerequest
    • State changed from “new” to “wontfix”

    This is fixed if you use http://github.com/gaffo/mainline...

    Which puts the integration test and the selenium server in the same database connection.

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