“rake spec” migrates the database every time

Question

When I run any of the rspec tasks via rake, the database seems to be dropped and migrated, but if I run them via script/spec path/to/spec, it doesn\'t. Is there an option I can

Answer 1

I had this same problem also when running rspec from the command line. In my cases I was working with an legacy database that had no migrations, so the tests would fail because migrations could not be run.

The solution was to edit the spec/spec_helper.rb file and delete the following line:

ActiveRecord::Migration.check_pending! if defined?(ActiveRecord::Migration)

After that the tests ran without failing.