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Rails SafetyNet

Posted by Mike Blake Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:14:00 GMT

Curent Mood: Bored with Deleting the Production Database

I thought I was the only clown working on Rails projects and ignoring the warning in config/database.yml and using rake to wipe out perfectly good databases. But I’ve seen it happen to others now, and enough’s enough. So I created the

SafetyNet Plugin

You can install Safety Net in your app, by running

ruby script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/apptrain/trunk/vendor/plugins/safety_net

That’s it. Now, If the test database points to the same database as development or production running rake will display the following message:

rake aborted! 



The name of your test database matches production or development.

How it Works

Purging the poor innocent database is prevented in two ways.

1. By adding a prerequisite check to the rake script that normaly performs this task.
2. By modifying the fixtures method on ActiveRecord to avoid the same fate when running individual tests with the ruby command.

Posted in Create | Tags apptrain, plugin, rails, rails test database, rake, safetynet, safetynet | 1 comment