TestSettingsManager: temporarily change settings for tests
This TestSettingsManager class takes some of the pain out of making temporary changes to settings for the purposes of a unittest or doctest. It will keep track of the original settings and let you easily revert them back when you're done. It also handles re-syncing the DB if you modify INSTALLED_APPS, which is especially handy if you have some test-only models in tests/models.py. This makes it easy to dynamically get those models synced to the DB before running your tests. Sample doctest usage, for testing an app called "app_under_test," that has a tests/ sub-module containing a urls.py for testing URLs, a models.py with some testing models, and a templates/ directory with test templates: >>> from test_utils import TestManager; mgr = TestManager() >>> import os >>> mgr.set(INSTALLED_APPS=('django.contrib.contenttypes', ... 'django.contrib.sessions', ... 'django.contrib.auth', ... 'app_under_test', ... 'app_under_test.tests'), ... ROOT_URLCONF='app_under_test.tests.urls', ... TEMPLATE_DIRS=(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), ... 'templates'),)) ...do your doctests... >>> mgr.revert()
- settings
- test
- syncdb