API test writes in dev db but reads in test db - ruby-on-rails

Question

I'm trying to test my api with airborne
The call to the api works and create a User, but in the dev DB : there is no log of the creation and i find it using rails c.
But when i do User.find in the test, it searches the test db : there are logs and it doesn't find the user.
Here's my test :
require 'rails_helper'
describe 'register#create' do
it 'should create a new user' do
post '/register',
{
email: 'mail#mail.fr',
password: '12345678',
password_confirmation: '12345678'
}
puts response.body
expect_status 200
expect(User.find_by_email('mail#mail.fr')).to exist
end
end
Here's the method i'm trying to test :
class RegistrationsController < Devise::RegistrationsController
respond_to :json
skip_before_filter :verify_authenticity_token
acts_as_token_authentication_handler_for User
skip_before_filter :authenticate_entity_from_token!, only: [:create]
skip_before_filter :authenticate_entity!, only: [:create]
skip_before_filter :authenticate_scope!
append_before_filter :authenticate_scope!, only: [:destroy]
def create
build_resource(sign_up_params)
if !resource.valid?
status = 422
message = "#{resource.errors.full_messages}"
elsif resource.save!
status = 200
message = "Successfully created new account for email #{sign_up_params[:email]}."
else
clean_up_passwords resource
status = 500
message = "Failed to create new account for email #{sign_up_params[:email]}."
end
respond_to do |format|
format.json { render json: { message: message }, status: status }
end
end
Here's rails_helper :
ENV['RAILS_ENV'] = 'test'
require File.expand_path('../../config/environment', __FILE__)
abort("The Rails environment is running in production mode!") if Rails.env.production?
require 'spec_helper'
require 'rspec/rails'
ActiveRecord::Migration.maintain_test_schema!
RSpec.configure do |config|
config.fixture_path = "#{::Rails.root}/spec/fixtures"
config.use_transactional_fixtures = true
config.infer_spec_type_from_file_location!
end
Here's spec_helper :
ENV['RAILS_ENV'] = 'test'
require 'airborne'
Airborne.configure do |config|
config.base_url = 'http://myapp.dev/api/v1'
end
RSpec.configure do |config|
config.expect_with :rspec do |expectations|
expectations.include_chain_clauses_in_custom_matcher_descriptions = true
end
config.mock_with :rspec do |mocks|
mocks.verify_partial_doubles = true
end
end
And finally, here's the log :
$ rspec
WARN: Unresolved specs during Gem::Specification.reset:
minitest (~> 5.1)
WARN: Clearing out unresolved specs.
Please report a bug if this causes problems.
DEBUG -- : ActiveRecord::SchemaMigration Load (0.1ms) SELECT "schema_migrations".* FROM "schema_migrations"
DEBUG -- : (0.1ms) begin transaction
{"message":"Successfully created new account for email mail#mail.fr."}
DEBUG -- : User Load (0.2ms) SELECT "users".* FROM "users" WHERE "users"."email" = ? LIMIT 1 [["email", "mail#mail.fr"]]
DEBUG -- : (0.1ms) rollback transaction
F
Failures:
1) register#create should create a new user
Failure/Error: expect(User.find_by_email('mail#mail.fr')).to exist
expected nil to exist but it does not respond to either `exist?` or `exists?`
# ./spec/registration_controller_spec.rb:19:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
I'm fairly new to rails and i don't know where the problem might come from.
Thanks for your help :)

Answer 1

In my test, i POST to http://myapp.dv/api/v1/register which is a Pow! url.
Pow! configuration was the default one, which points to the DEV env.
So my test was in the right env, not the call to the api.
I used powder to switch envs now and it works.
ps : i also replaced
expect(User.find_by_email('mail#mail.fr')).to exist
with
expect(User.find_by_email('mail#mail.fr')).not_to be_nil