How to set up separate test and development database in meteor

Question

I've written a few tests for my meteor app. As they have setup and teardown methods that remove all documents or populate with new ones, I'd like to run them on a database dedicated to testing.

I notice the db is stored in .meteor/local/db . Ideally I'd like to have db_test and db_dev accessed form different ports.

Is this possible?

Answer 1

You'll have to run two mongod processes e.g.

# Dev
mongod --port 27017 --dbpath .meteor/local/db_dev

# Testing
mongod --port 28017 --dbpath .meteor/local/db_test

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[Edit] This should work. Using the leaderboard example project:

MONGO_URL="mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/appname_dev" meteor run --port 3000
MONGO_URL="mongodb://127.0.0.1:28017/appname_test" meteor run --port 4000

That will use separate databases.