Running django tests with sqlite

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jMyles picture jMyles · Jun 15, 2011 · Viewed 14.6k times · Source

I use Postgres for production and development, but I'd like to use sqlite to run some tests. I don't see an easy way to configure one engine for tests and another for dev / production. Am I missing something?

Answer

shanyu picture shanyu · Jun 15, 2011

Append the following lines in your settings:

import sys
if 'test' in sys.argv or 'test_coverage' in sys.argv: #Covers regular testing and django-coverage
    DATABASES['default']['ENGINE'] = 'django.db.backends.sqlite3'

Make sure your actual database setting comes before them.

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