[Catalyst] Using Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst on a test database

Robert Rothenberg robrwo at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 22:45:25 GMT 2012


On 15/02/12 16:03 Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 03:25:51PM +0000, Robert Rothenberg wrote:
>> I would like to use Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst with an alternative
>> database schema (since I want to test reading and writing on a database with
>> the same schema but known data that is not the live database), but it's not
>> clear to me from reading the documentation on how to do this, or even if
>> it's possible.
> 
> Very much so. Have you looked at
> 
> http://search.cpan.org/~hkclark/Catalyst-Manual-5.9002/lib/Catalyst/Manual/Tutorial/08_Testing.pod#SUPPORTING_BOTH_PRODUCTION_AND_TEST_DATABASES

This isn't working. It's clearly trying to load the myapp_testing.conf file
(because it complains if I put in syntax errors), but the database
connection info is not being overridden, and it's wiping the production
database.





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