Conditionally turn off audits in tests

[JerrodCarpenter]

I'm trying to find a way to only have audits on for the specific tests that test audits. Turning audits off for the 95% of other tests will really speed up test suites. I can't quite figure out how to turn this on/off on a file per file or test by test basis though. Has anyone done this in the past?

[mattr]

If you're using RSpec, you can set your defaults in the rails helper and then override the settings per test:

# rails_helper.rb
config.before(:all) { Audited.auditing_enabled = false }
config.after(:all) { Audited.auditing_enabled = true } # opt: ensure audits are re-enabled after run

and in your individual tests where you need audits:

around do |example|
  Audited.auditing_enabled = true
  example.run
  Audited.auditing_enabled = false
end

It should be possible to do something similar with minitest. A quick search suggests that it doesn't have a before(:all) equivalent, but you could set Audited.auditing_enabled = false in your test environment/config, and then use setup and teardown to enable/disable for individual tests. Minitest does have an after_tests hook which you could use to ensure that auditing is re-enabled after the test suite has run.