mysql drop_db rake task no longer prompts for confirmation

fixed niggly bug in rake specs: something is wrong with the loading of rails tasks, see comments

Rakefile

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Bundler::GemHelper.install_tasks
 require "rspec"
 require "rspec/core/rake_task"
 
-RSpec::Core::RakeTask.new(:spec => %w{postgres:drop_db postgres:build_db}) do |spec|
+RSpec::Core::RakeTask.new(:spec => "db:test:prepare") do |spec|
   spec.pattern = "spec/**/*_spec.rb"
 end
 
@@ -21,6 +21,12 @@ end
 
 task :default => :spec
 
+namespace :db do
+  namespace :test do
+    task :prepare => %w{postgres:drop_db postgres:build_db mysql:drop_db mysql:build_db}
+  end
+end
+
 namespace :postgres do
   require 'active_record'
   require "#{File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'spec', 'support', 'config')}"
@@ -29,7 +35,7 @@ namespace :postgres do
   task :build_db do
     %x{ createdb -E UTF8 #{pg_config['database']} } rescue "test db already exists"
     ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection pg_config
-    load 'spec/dummy/db/schema.rb'
+    ActiveRecord::Migrator.migrate('spec/dummy/db/migrate')
   end
 
   desc "drop the PostgreSQL test database"
@@ -48,14 +54,13 @@ namespace :mysql do
   task :build_db do
     %x{ mysqladmin -u root create #{my_config['database']} } rescue "test db already exists"
     ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection my_config
-    load 'spec/dummy/db/schema.rb'
+    ActiveRecord::Migrator.migrate('spec/dummy/db/migrate')
   end
 
   desc "drop the MySQL test database"
   task :drop_db do
     puts "dropping database #{my_config['database']}"
-    # TODO how can I run this and force answering y to the "are you sure?"
-    %x{ mysqladmin -u root drop #{my_config['database']} }
+    %x{ mysqladmin -u root drop #{my_config['database']} --force}
   end
 
 end

spec/dummy/db/migrate/20110613152810_create_dummy_models.rb

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 class CreateDummyModels < ActiveRecord::Migration
-  def change
+  def self.up
     create_table :companies do |t|
       t.boolean :dummy
       t.string :database
@@ -28,4 +28,10 @@ def change
 
   end
 
+  def self.down
+    drop_table :companies
+    drop_table :users
+    drop_table :delayed_jobs
+  end
+
 end

spec/dummy/db/schema.rb

@@ -11,7 +11,13 @@
 #
 # It's strongly recommended to check this file into your version control system.
 
-ActiveRecord::Schema.define(:version => 20110613152810) do
+ActiveRecord::Schema.define(:version => 20111202022214) do
+
+  create_table "books", :force => true do |t|
+    t.string   "name"
+    t.integer  "pages"
+    t.datetime "published"
+  end
 
   create_table "companies", :force => true do |t|
     t.boolean "dummy"

spec/integration/apartment_rake_integration_spec.rb

@@ -8,9 +8,11 @@
     Rake.application = @rake
     Dummy::Application.load_tasks
 
-    # stub out rails tasks (that modify the schema.rb)
-    Rake::Task.define_task('db:migrate')
-    Rake::Task.define_task('db:rollback')
+    # somehow this misc.rake file gets lost in the shuffle
+    # it defines a `rails_env` task that our db:migrate depends on
+    # No idea why, but during the tests, we somehow lose this tasks, so we get an error when testing migrations
+    # This is STUPID!
+    load "rails/tasks/misc.rake"    
   end
 
   after do
@@ -56,6 +58,7 @@
         end
 
         @rake['apartment:rollback'].invoke
+        @rake['apartment:migrate'].invoke   # migrate again so that our next test 'seed' can run (requires migrations to be complete)
       end
     end
 

spec/spec_helper.rb

@@ -22,10 +22,6 @@
 
   config.include RSpec::Integration::CapybaraSessions, :type => :request
 
-  config.before(:suite) do
-    load Rails.root.join('db','schema.rb')    # Ensure we have some of our test tables loaded
-  end
-
   config.before(:all) do
     # Ensure that each test starts with a clean connection
     # Necessary as some tests will leak things like current_schema into the next test