[rspec-users] [ANN] database_resetter 0.1.0

[Ashley Moran]

Hi all

Apologies for cross-posting and spam in the same post.  Hopefully you'll let me off this once...

I just released my first gem (woo!), database_resetter[1].  It's designed to completely rebuild your Rails/Merb etc database before a Cucumber/RSpec every time a migration changes.  Basically it prevents you seeing "unknown column" etc errors because you forgot to migrate the DB before a test run.

It's complementary to, not a replacement for, database_cleaner.  database_resetter runs 0-1 times per Cucumber/RSpec run, whereas database_cleaner runs 0-1 times per Cucumber scenario / RSpec example.

I've been using it for a year or two, but only just got round to packaging it up.  It doesn't do much, but over hundreds of database rebuilds the time savings add up to a fair bit.

I've used it "untested"* until now, but I spent today putting some Cucumber features around it.  They aren't perfect, but they sanity check most of what it does.  There's a ReadMe in the gem with full instructions (they're as good as I could manage after a long day).

The official source is in a darcs repo hosted on Patch-Tag[2].

Feedback gratefully received - let me know if you find it useful, and please contact me with bug reports / feature requests.  Like I say, this is my first gem, so I'm not expecting it to work well in the wild...

Cheers
Ash


[1] http://rubygems.org/gems/database_resetter 
[2] https://patch-tag.com/r/ashleymoran/database_resetter/home
* it works on my machine


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