rails 如何在没有 rspec 的测试之前加载测试夹具？

Question

Right now, I have a unit test that looks something like this:

class ModelTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
  # fixtures are not loaded yet
  # would like to setup something here ONCE (not once for every test)
  context 'test1' do
    #fixtures are not loaded in here either
    should 'test1 test1' do
      #fixtures are only loaded in here
     end
  end
end

As the comments suggest, I want to setup something there ONCE (not once for every test) before all the tests run, but in order to do so, it requires the fixtures defined in test/fixtures folder to be loaded outside the scope of the tests and before the tests even run. Is there any way of accomplishing this?

Answer 1

You can use before(:suite) hook. It will be called only once.

before(:suite) do
  #load test/fixtures here
end