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Copyright (c) 2008 Ben Mabey
Copyright (c) 2009 Ben Mabey

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
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h1. Database Cleaner

Database Cleaner is a set of strategies for cleaning your database in Ruby.
The original use case was to ensure a clean state during tests. Each strategy
is a small amount of code but is code that is usually needed in any ruby app
that is testing with a database.

Right now the only ORM supported is ActiveRecord and it currently has two strategies:
truncation and transaction.

Support for DataMapper is built-in. All that needs to be written are the strategies. :)

h2. How to use

<pre>
require 'database_cleaner'
DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :truncation

# then, whenever you need to clean the DB
DatabaseCleaner.clean
</pre>

With the :truncation strategy you can also pass in options, for example:
<pre>
DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :truncation, {:only => %[widigets dogs some_other_table]}
</pre>

<pre>
DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :truncation, {:except => %[widigets]}
</pre>

(I should point out the truncation strategy will never truncate your schema_migrations table.)


Some strategies require that you call DatabaseCleaner.start before calling clean
(for example the :transaction one needs to know to open up a transaction). So
you would have:

<pre>
require 'database_cleaner'
DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :transaction

DatabaseCleaner.start # usually this is called in setup of a test
dirty_the_db
DatabaseCleaner.clean # cleanup of the test
</pre>

At times you may want to do a single clean with one strategy. For example, you may want
to start the process by truncating all the tables, but then use the faster transaction
strategy the remaining time. To accomplish this you can say:

<pre>
require 'database_cleaner'
DatabaseCleaner.clean_with :truncation
DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :transaction
# then make the DatabaseCleaner.start and DatabaseCleaner.clean calls appropriately
</pre>

For use in Cucumber please see the section below.



h2. Why?

One of my motivations for writing this library was to have an easy way to
turn on what Rails calls "transactional_fixtures" in my non-rails
ActiveRecord projects. For example, Cucumber ships with a Rails world that
will wrap each scenario in a transaction. This is great, but what if you are
using ActiveRecord in a non-rails project? You used to have to copy-and-paste
the needed code, but with DatabaseCleaner you can now say:

<pre>
#env.rb
require 'database_cleaner'
require 'database_cleaner/cucumber'
DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :transaction
</pre>

Now lets say you are running your features and it requires that another process be
involved (i.e. Selenium running against your app's server.) You can simply change
your strategy type:

<pre>
#env.rb
require 'database_cleaner'
require 'database_cleaner/cucumber'
DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :truncation
</pre>

You can have the best of both worlds and use the best one for the job:
<pre>
#env.rb
require 'database_cleaner'
require 'database_cleaner/cucumber'
DatabaseCleaner.strategy = (ENV['SELENIUM'] == 'true') ? :truncation : :transaction
</pre>

h2. COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2009 Ben Mabey. See LICENSE for details.
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Gem::Specification.new do |s|
s.name = %q{database_cleaner}
s.version = "0.0.1"
s.version = "0.1.0"

s.required_rubygems_version = Gem::Requirement.new(">= 0") if s.respond_to? :required_rubygems_version=
s.authors = ["Ben Mabey"]
s.date = %q{2009-03-04}
s.description = %q{TODO}
s.email = %q{[email protected]}
s.files = ["VERSION.yml", "examples/features", "examples/features/example.feature", "examples/features/step_definitions", "examples/features/step_definitions/example_steps.rb", "examples/features/support", "examples/features/support/env.rb", "examples/lib", "examples/lib/activerecord.rb", "lib/database_cleaner", "lib/database_cleaner/active_record", "lib/database_cleaner/active_record/transaction.rb", "lib/database_cleaner/active_record/truncation.rb", "lib/database_cleaner/configuration.rb", "lib/database_cleaner/cucumber.rb", "lib/database_cleaner/data_mapper", "lib/database_cleaner/data_mapper/transaction.rb", "lib/database_cleaner.rb", "features/cleaning.feature", "features/step_definitions", "features/step_definitions/database_cleaner_steps.rb", "features/support", "features/support/env.rb", "spec/database_cleaner", "spec/database_cleaner/active_record", "spec/database_cleaner/active_record/truncation_spec.rb", "spec/database_cleaner/configuration_spec.rb", "spec/spec.opts", "spec/spec_helper.rb", "Rakefile", "cucumber.yml"]
s.files = ["README.textile", "VERSION.yml", "examples/features", "examples/features/example.feature", "examples/features/step_definitions", "examples/features/step_definitions/example_steps.rb", "examples/features/support", "examples/features/support/env.rb", "examples/lib", "examples/lib/activerecord.rb", "lib/database_cleaner", "lib/database_cleaner/active_record", "lib/database_cleaner/active_record/transaction.rb", "lib/database_cleaner/active_record/truncation.rb", "lib/database_cleaner/configuration.rb", "lib/database_cleaner/cucumber.rb", "lib/database_cleaner/data_mapper", "lib/database_cleaner/data_mapper/transaction.rb", "lib/database_cleaner.rb", "features/cleaning.feature", "features/step_definitions", "features/step_definitions/database_cleaner_steps.rb", "features/support", "features/support/env.rb", "spec/database_cleaner", "spec/database_cleaner/active_record", "spec/database_cleaner/active_record/truncation_spec.rb", "spec/database_cleaner/configuration_spec.rb", "spec/spec.opts", "spec/spec_helper.rb", "Rakefile", "cucumber.yml"]
s.has_rdoc = true
s.homepage = %q{http://github.com/bmabey/database_cleaner}
s.rdoc_options = ["--inline-source", "--charset=UTF-8"]
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