[rspec-users] [Cucumber] Cucumber and acts_as_xapian

[Ben Mabey]

Bart Zonneveld wrote:
> Hey list,
>
> Anyone have experience with acts_as_xapian and Cucumber? I'm 
> struggling with updating xapian's index, to actually "find" fluff that 
> has been indexed..
> In a scenario, I'm adding a bunch of articles, and in the actual 
> search step, I run:
>
> When "I search for \"$query\"" do |query|
>   %x[rake RAILS_ENV=test xapian:update_index]
>   fill_in "Search", :with => query
>   click_button 'Search'
> end
>
> At this point in the scenario, I can see there are articles in the 
> database. But if I try to query the articles using xapian after the 
> update_index rake task has run, I don't see any results.
> Could this have to do with transactional fixtures or something? Really 
> stuck here, because I obviously don't want to stub these searches, and 
> I do want to test them.

Yeah, I would say this is due to the transactions.  Try disabling the 
transactions and cleaning up the DB yourself (i.e. truncating all the 
tables) in the Before hooks.

-Ben
>
> thanks,
> bartz
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