[Rails] *dont* empty the database...?

[Dick Davies]

On 07/04/06, Alex Young <alex at blackkettle.org> wrote:
> Alan Bullock wrote:
> > I'd like to test against a very large dataset - is there anyway to prevent
> > the data in the test database being destroyed on each test run? storing the
> > dataset in fixtures causes the tests to take several minutes to complete,
> > even using csv fixtures, and that's just for one test case!

Does your db support transactions? check test/test_helper.rb says

  self.use_transactional_fixtures = true


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