nose-easy-init 1.0.2

Example initialization module

Let’s assume that we’ve named our initialization module nose_init.py and saved it in /path/to/my/app/tests/nose_init.py. That file must contain a main function. For example:

"""
Initialization script which is imported when ``nosetests`` is run.
The main function will be executed before any other application code
is imported.
"""

def main():
    """nose_easy_init will call this before each ``nosetests`` run."""

    setup_my_test_environment()
    setup_my_test_database()
    etc()

Then, before running nosetests, set one of two environment variables to specify the module:

NOSE_INIT_MODULE=app.tests.nose_init
NOSE_INIT_PATH=/path/to/my/app/tests/nose_init.py

Note that if both the environment variables are defined, the filesystem path, NOSE_INIT_PATH, will take precedence over NOSE_INIT_MODULE.