Yii 2 migrations for test database

php testing yii2 codeception
Mr Peach picture Mr Peach · Aug 14, 2014 · Viewed 9.9k times · Source

I'm failing to see a clear way to do this, although I can see it being reiterated multiple times in the documentation, specifically:

Use yii migrate tool to upgrade your test database to the latest version;

found in http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/guide-test-fixture.html#summary (just to give an example)

What happens is that no matter how I configure the _console.php and _config.php within my tests/unit folder, if I run the migration tool is picking up the main app db:

$ cd tests/unit
$ ../../yii migrate/up
Yii Migration Tool (based on Yii v2.0.0-dev)

No new migration found. Your system is up-to-date.

And yes, the test database is correctly configured (running tests will throw an error saying there are no tables). I can obviously create the db structure myself, but this is all about getting this feature work as it should.

I'm currently using the Basic app installed via composer.

Answer

Mr Peach picture Mr Peach · Aug 14, 2014

[edit] updated the answer to reflect the current version of Yii2

Just posting the correct answer as I found it myself and I feel a bit stupid as it was under my eyes.

There's another yii commandline within the test folder directory, which means you can easily do:

$ cd tests/codeception/bin
$ chmod a+x yii
$ yii migrate/up

and it will automatically use the database you've specified in tests/codeception/config/config.php.

Enjoy

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