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Switching off transactions for a single spec when using RSpec

Posted by Rahoul Baruah on May 8th, 2009 under Ruby on Rails and Software Development, Writing Reliable, Bug-Free Code Tags: , , , ,  •  Comments Off

I have just written a load of test code that needed to verify that a particular set of classes behaved correctly when a transaction was rolled back.
However, the rest of my suite relied on transactional fixtures (which is Rails’ badly named way of saying that a transaction is started before each test and [...]