how to run unit tests?

[caboteria]

Hi, I'd like to make a small addition to activerecord5-redshift-adapter so I'm trying to get the tests to pass, but I'm having trouble just getting them to run. How do you set up a development environment?

Thanks!

[kpheasey]

You can't run redshift locally, so you have to create a separate cluster for development/test.

Redshift is based on PostgreSQL 8.0.3, so you could potentially use that on your local machine instead. However, it's not backwards compatible, see the documentation, http://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/c_redshift-and-postgres-sql.html

[caboteria]

Thanks! I'm running redshift in the AWS cloud so that's all set, but I'm having trouble simply getting the tests to run, even before they attempt to connect to Redshift. For example, test/cases/helper.rb, which is included in every test, tries to require a file called load_paths but in a directory that's two levels above the root of this project. Is it intended that I copy this project inside a copy of the RoR source and run it from there?

[kwent]

Same here unit tests are really weird. I don't think they ever ran and looks pretty useless