running tests via the terminal and rake, load test_helper

Question

I am having a problem running my tests from the terminal and from rake, eg rake test:integration

At the moment, I have the requires for test_helper.rb specified like this:

require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../test_helper'

This works fine when running them from the terminal but obviously when it is ran from rake, the directory is different and the process cannot find the test_helper file.

I think I want to add to this to my $load_path but I am not sure how to add it when running only in the test environment.

Can anyone help me out?

Answer 1

You can revert to just require 'test_helper' (the default for integration tests, at least with Rails 2.3.x). This will allow tests to run from a rake task, and as long as you cd to the test directory within your rails app, you can run tests via the terminal with ruby integration/your_test.rb .