Ruby on Rails framework has great automated testing tools for unit, integration testing and others as well. this post will not discuss these tools, you should be familiar with them already.

I’m sharing here a task to help you prepare your test environment and run Rspec task without the need to run every command to run your test

Steps

Create your task file

Navigate to your lib\tasks folder, then create a test_db_setup.rake file

Put the code

Copy and paste the below code

namespace 'app' do
   desc "Setup test environment database: drop, create, migrate, seed the test db and start you rspec tests"
task :test_db_setup => [:environment] do
      Rails.env = ENV['RAILS_ENV'] = 'test'
require 'rspec/core/rake_task'
RSpec::Core::RakeTask.new(:spec)
      Rake::Task['db:drop'].invoke
      Rake::Task['db:create'].invoke
      Rake::Task['db:migrate'].invoke
      Rake::Task['db:seed'].invoke
      puts "Test environment is ready"
      puts "Automated test will start ................................"
      Rake::Task['spec'].invoke
      puts "Finished ................................"
   end
end

Run your task

open your command line and navigate to your project source folder then run

rake app:test_db_setup

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