Perform a sanity check on your database through active record validation.

• ActiveSanity ~0.2 requires Rails ~3.1
• ActiveSanity ~0.1 requires Rails ~3.0

Add the following line to your Gemfile

gem 'active_sanity'

If you wish to store invalid records in your database run:

$ rails generate active_sanity
$ rake db:migrate

Just run:

rake db:check_sanity

ActiveSanity will iterate over every records of all your models to check weither they're valid or not. It will save invalid records in the table invalid_records if it exists and output all invalid records.

The output might look like the following:

model       | id  | errors
User        |   1 | { "email" => ["is invalid"] }
Flight      | 123 | { "arrival_time" => ["can't be nil"], "departure_time" => ["is invalid"] }
Flight      | 323 | { "arrival_time" => ["can't be nil"] }

Usual fork & pull request.

This gem is quite simple so I experiment using features only. To run the acceptance test suite, just run:

bundle install
RAILS_ENV=test cucumber features

Using features only was kinda handsome until I had to deal with two different database schema (with / without the table invalid_records) in the same test suite. I guess that the same complexity would arise using any other testing framework.