Re: Testing related models without saving

2015-07-16 Thread Roland Swingler
> i'll just say that Django tests don't favor too much into the "unit" test spectrum; That is what I'm seeing - it is the same with rails out of the box as well. I guess I'm just curious to know whether: a) the 'unit' test end of the spectrum is feasible if that's what you like b) what is avail

Re: Testing related models without saving

2015-07-16 Thread Roland Swingler
Hi, Thanks for the link - I'll investigate that further, especially as to whether you can set that dynamically. I understand that the test db uses a different schema (it's the same in rails), the point is to be able to run tests isolated from having a database at all. Thanks, Roland -- You

Testing related models without saving

2015-07-16 Thread Roland Swingler
Hi all, I've very recently come to to Django from a rails background, and struggling to do unit testing of Django models without saving to the database as I'm used to in Rails. Lets say you have 2 linked models, for example User and UserProfileDetails, then in my tests I want to set up the str