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Can't seem to get :truncation to work with MS SQL Server

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ruby, sql
Domain
databases, testing

Research direction

Start by reproducing the reported RSpec failure with DatabaseCleaner’s :truncation strategy, the activerecord-sqlserver-adapter, and the database.yml configuration described here. No source file or test is named; done means identifying whether SQL Server support is incompatible or misconfigured and adding a focused regression test or documenting the required setup.

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Description

Hi, so im at wits end trying to get this to work. Right now were connecting to MS SQL Server (2014) VM using the Activerecord gem for SQL Server: gem 'activerecord-sqlserver-adapter'

I can't seem to get DB Cleaner to work with this. It's worked great in the past using capybara/selenium webdriver.

I know you have to set it to use truncation strategy, but even putting:

    DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :truncation
    DatabaseCleaner.clean_with(:truncation)
    DatabaseCleaner.start

at the beginning of a "it" rspec test, it complains about invalid object name instantly once it gets to that test:

  Failure/Error: DatabaseCleaner.clean_with(:truncation)
   ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid:
      TinyTds::Error: Invalid object name 'user_table'.: DELETE FROM [user_table];

(user_table is just an example here)

I ensured it's connecting to the right database because when I take out Database cleaner it works just fine and I can see the database being populated correctly. So I know my database.yml is set up correctly.

Im not really sure what to try here, or if it's just an incompatibility with SQL Server perhaps? I can't seem to find many examples of people using DB Cleaner and SQL Server.

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