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Nov 25, 2021
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Setting up the testing environment to use separate db
How can I setup the enviroment for testing in my proyect, right now when I run my tests my db gets all deleted.
This is what I have rn:
- I copied my
.env, pasted it as.env.testingand only changed theDB_DATABASEvariable to another empty db for testing. - In
phpunit.xmlI commented out the 24-25 lines and changed them as below
<server name="DB_CONNECTION" value="mysql"/>
<server name="DB_DATABASE" value="auth_test"/>
I couldn't find much in the docs https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/testing#environment
And when I run php artisan test my db auth gets it's data deleted, what am I doing wrong so that laravel uses the other db when testing?
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@Sinnbeck I ended up changing the DB_CONNECTION in the phpunit for a custom database conection I created and that works great!.
I do have an unrelated question: Can I from the console run migrations on a specific database conection?
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@msslgomez great. Make a new env file and use the --env=newfile
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