Rake test:x recreates tables in MySQL with server (not datab

Rails
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Any thoughts on how to avoid this problem? Already tried:

  1. Setting the charset and collation in migration 001 - no effect:

def self.up
db_name = ActiveRecord::Base::connection.current_database()
execute “ALTER DATABASE #{db_name} CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE
utf8_bin”
end

  1. Setting the charset and collation on each table individually - no
    effect:
    {:options=>“engine=InnoDB CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_bin”}

Note that development and production environments work fine with
database default, migration 001, or setting per each table. Only the
test db, specifically after a rake test:units run has this problem.

Repro:

  1. Create DB (MySQL 5.0.24a)
    CREATE DATABASE foobar CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_bin;

  2. Run migration (Rails 1.2)

  3. Verify database and all tables have charset utf8 and collation of
    utf_bin: yes.
    select @@character_set_server, etc…

latin1 latin1_swedish_ci utf8
utf8_bin

  1. Run rake test:units. Tests fail as side-effect of incorrect
    collation.

  2. Verify database and all tables have charset utf8 and collation of
    utf_bin: no - database still has correct settings but each table is now
    latin1_swedish_ci.

Ideally I’d like to run the rake test:x’s without touching schema at
all - unless it’s going to mimic exactly what can happen to
production, i.e. never drop or create the DB and only alter schema
through migration files.

Short of that, any ideas on just getting past this would be great. My
next step will be to create a shell script that just runs every
*_test.rb file. Or maybe revert back to Ant. :wink:

2

I’ve since realized that the rake test tasks probably use the schema
dump mechanism - not migrations - to drop and recreate the DB; I’d
surmise that http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/4751 is at least
related to this problem with test DB’s.

For the moment, I shoved a hack into mysql_adapter to read and use
character sets and collations when recreating DB’s. I suspect there
probably needs to be a better long term solution (or at least a better
coded and tested one.)

The full diff for the above follows (there’s a couple obvious problems
with this code and probably many non-obvious ones - don’t use this
anywhere that counts):

Index: activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/
mysql_adapter.rb

— activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/
mysql_adapter.rb (revision 6045)
+++ activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/
mysql_adapter.rb (working copy)
@@ -305,12 +305,14 @@
end

   def recreate_database(name) #:nodoc:

  •    settings = select_one('SELECT @@character_set_database AS

charset, @@collation_database AS collation’)
drop_database(name)

  •    create_database(name)

  •    create_database(name, settings)
 end

 def create_database(name) #:nodoc:

  •    execute "CREATE DATABASE `#{name}`"

  •    settings_sql = " CHARACTER SET #{settings['charset']} COLLATE

#{settings[‘collation’]}" if (settings)

  •    execute "CREATE DATABASE `#{name}` #{settings_sql}"
 end

 def drop_database(name) #:nodoc:

– end diff