I get a "database does not exist error" when running unit tests

Question

Every time I run the command:

rake test test/models/post_test.rb test_the_truth

I get the following error:

`initialize': FATAL:  database "knome_test" does not exist (PG::Error).

Can someone explain and help me to debug it?

Answer 1

It sounds like you have not created the database.

Try running the following to create, migrate, then prepare your test database.

rake db:create
rake db:migrate
rake db:test:prepare