rake db:schema:load test

Don’t do it.

And not just because you should be using rspec.

rake db:schema:load test does this:

** Invoke db:schema:load (first_time)
** Invoke environment (first_time)
** Execute environment
** Execute db:schema:load
** Invoke test (first_time)
** Execute test
** Invoke test:units (first_time)
** Invoke test:prepare (first_time)
** Invoke db:test:prepare (first_time)
** Invoke db:abort_if_pending_migrations (first_time)
** Invoke environment 
** Execute db:abort_if_pending_migrations
** Execute db:test:prepare
** Invoke db:test:load (first_time)
** Invoke db:test:purge (first_time)
** Invoke environment 
** Execute db:test:purge
** Execute db:test:load
** Invoke db:schema:load 
** Execute test:prepare
** Execute test:units
** Invoke test:functionals (first_time)
** Invoke test:prepare 
** Execute test:functionals

If you look closely, you’ll see that db:schema:load is in there twice. The first time, it’s loading into your dev environment. The second time, it’s loading into your test environment. Or, tries to: rake notices that db:schema:load was already run, so it skips it. You know, unnecessary extra work.

I am most likely to rake db:schema:load test (or spec) on a CI server, sometimes with a db:migrate mixed in. One-liner ci scripts are nice. But keep db:schema:load and test separated.

If you have db/schema.rb in source control like you should, and you keep it up to date, you still need to db:schema:load to avoid the ‘abort if pending migrations’ thing: rake db:schema:load ; rake test

If your db/schema.rb might be out of date, rake db:schema:load db:migrate ; rake test

If you’re a glutton for punishment: rake db:migrate test

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