Django Unittesting on Dreamhost
December 27th, 2008
The default test behaviour for a Django site creates and then destroys a whole test database on each test run. Normally this is not a problem, but the way Dreamhost has their MySQL setup running, the commands to create and drop databases are not available outside of their administration panel. What follows is the solution I have come up with and am currently using to run Django unittests with my Dreamhost MySQL databases.
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