incompatible with spring

[Goltergaul]

This gem is incompatible with https://github.com/rails/spring . The problem seems to be that the <%= ENV['TEST_ENV_NUMBER'] %> in the database.yml is not reevaluated for each test that is spinned up.

I am using the follwing two gems:
gem "spring"
gem "spring-commands-rspec"

Is there a workaround i can use?

[grosser]

You could do some fancyness around reloading the db yml and reconnecting the db, but I doubt this will be the only issue you run into, since every connection needs to be redone ...

[tonidas]

That will be awesome!

[diasjorge]

maybe this could help: rails/spring#116

[sj26]

Spring doesn't completely reconfigure activerecord, which is required if you want to do the interpolation of TEST_ENV_NUMBER into your config.

Putting into config/spring.rb worked for me:

require "active_support/core_ext/module/aliasing"
require "spring/application"

class Spring::Application
  def connect_database_with_reconfigure_database
    disconnect_database
    reconfigure_database
    connect_database_without_reconfigure_database
  end

  alias_method_chain :connect_database, :reconfigure_database

  def reconfigure_database
    if active_record_configured?
      ActiveRecord::Base.configurations =
        Rails.application.config.database_configuration
    end
  end
end

The problem is there's no nice place in the preload process to hook into, an after_fork isn't quite right because the database is already connected. Meh.

[tonidas]

@sj26 What about ActiveModel in MongoID ?

[sj26]

@airtonsobral you'll probably need to customise your spring after_fork hook to do the same thing for mongo.

[Loremaster]

@sj26 Tried you solution and it didn't work for me, unfortunately. :( I still have errors like this one:

Failure/Error: Unable to find matching line from backtrace
     ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid:
       PG::TRDeadlockDetected: ERROR:  deadlock detected
       LINE 1: SELECT  "contact_types".* FROM "contact_types"  WHERE "conta...
                                              ^
       DETAIL:  Process 70359 waits for AccessShareLock on relation 24882218 of database 7594218; blocked by process 70358.
       Process 70358 waits for AccessExclusiveLock on relation 24888649 of database 7594218; blocked by process 70359.
       HINT:  See server log for query details.

That is sad.

UPD: After spring stop your solution started to work! Thank you!

[grosser]

there is now a $250 bounty for this issue https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1669551-incompatible-with-spring :)

[dankohn]

@sj26 your solution worked for me, after running spring stop. Thanks!

[grosser]

make it pretty and go grab that money then :)

[Loremaster]

@sj26 Do it, man. You should be rewarded according to your deserts!

Is there a solution for mongoid?

[foobear]

The solution of @sj26 did not work for me properly (also after spring stop), at least saying bin/rake parallel:create would try to create foo_development multiple times (imagine parallel:drop ;)).

In the end, we decided to simply disable Spring when running tests in parallel -- yes, it will be slightly slower as each worker has to boot; but that's not too important considering the test runtime on that project (a parallel run is still much faster).

I just disabled Spring on the bin/rake and bin/rspec binstubs by changing the way it's loaded:

running_in_parallel = ENV.has_key?('TEST_ENV_NUMBER') || ARGV.any? { |arg| arg =~ /^parallel:/ }

begin
  load File.expand_path("../spring", __FILE__) unless running_in_parallel
rescue LoadError
end

[jvenezia]

@foobear Thank's, this is perfect for me :)