Chris@154: ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= "test"
Chris@154: require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../../../../config/environment")
Chris@154: require 'test_help'
Chris@154: 
Chris@154: class Test::Unit::TestCase
Chris@154:   # Transactional fixtures accelerate your tests by wrapping each test method
Chris@154:   # in a transaction that's rolled back on completion.  This ensures that the
Chris@154:   # test database remains unchanged so your fixtures don't have to be reloaded
Chris@154:   # between every test method.  Fewer database queries means faster tests.
Chris@154:   #
Chris@154:   # Read Mike Clark's excellent walkthrough at
Chris@154:   #   http://clarkware.com/cgi/blosxom/2005/10/24#Rails10FastTesting
Chris@154:   #
Chris@154:   # Every Active Record database supports transactions except MyISAM tables
Chris@154:   # in MySQL.  Turn off transactional fixtures in this case; however, if you
Chris@154:   # don't care one way or the other, switching from MyISAM to InnoDB tables
Chris@154:   # is recommended.
Chris@154:   #
Chris@154:   # The only drawback to using transactional fixtures is when you actually 
Chris@154:   # need to test transactions.  Since your test is bracketed by a transaction,
Chris@154:   # any transactions started in your code will be automatically rolled back.
Chris@154:   self.use_transactional_fixtures = true
Chris@154: 
Chris@154:   # Instantiated fixtures are slow, but give you @david where otherwise you
Chris@154:   # would need people(:david).  If you don't want to migrate your existing
Chris@154:   # test cases which use the @david style and don't mind the speed hit (each
Chris@154:   # instantiated fixtures translates to a database query per test method),
Chris@154:   # then set this back to true.
Chris@154:   self.use_instantiated_fixtures  = false
Chris@154: 
Chris@154:   # Setup all fixtures in test/fixtures/*.(yml|csv) for all tests in alphabetical order.
Chris@154:   #
Chris@154:   # Note: You'll currently still have to declare fixtures explicitly in integration tests
Chris@154:   # -- they do not yet inherit this setting
Chris@154:   fixtures :all
Chris@154: 
Chris@154:   # Add more helper methods to be used by all tests here...
Chris@154: end