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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/topics/testing.txt | 16 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/docs/topics/testing.txt b/docs/topics/testing.txt index c5a18f8680..7bef4cb52f 100644 --- a/docs/topics/testing.txt +++ b/docs/topics/testing.txt @@ -1278,6 +1278,7 @@ already have some data in your database. See the :djadmin:`dumpdata documentation<dumpdata>` for more details. .. note:: + If you've ever run :djadmin:`manage.py syncdb<syncdb>`, you've already used a fixture without even knowing it! When you call :djadmin:`syncdb` in the database for the first time, Django @@ -1919,10 +1920,12 @@ utility methods in the ``django.test.utils`` module. magic hooks into the template system and restoring normal email services. +.. currentmodule:: django.db.connection.creation + The creation module of the database backend (``connection.creation``) also provides some utilities that can be useful during testing. -.. function:: create_test_db(verbosity=1, autoclobber=False) +.. function:: create_test_db([verbosity=1, autoclobber=False]) Creates a new test database and runs ``syncdb`` against it. @@ -1944,10 +1947,11 @@ also provides some utilities that can be useful during testing. :setting:`NAME` in :setting:`DATABASES` to match the name of the test database. -.. function:: destroy_test_db(old_database_name, verbosity=1) +.. function:: destroy_test_db(old_database_name, [verbosity=1]) - Destroys the database whose name is in stored in :setting:`NAME` in the - :setting:`DATABASES`, and sets :setting:`NAME` to use the - provided name. + Destroys the database whose name is the value of :setting:`NAME` in + :setting:`DATABASES`, and sets :setting:`NAME` to the value of + ``old_database_name``. - ``verbosity`` has the same behavior as in ``run_tests()``. + The ``verbosity`` argument has the same behavior as for + :class:`~django.test.simple.DjangoTestSuiteRunner`. |