Steps to run flask-security unit-tests on a mac.

flask-security unit testing.

To run flask_security unit-tests:

virtualenv --no-site-packages env/
. env/bin/activate
pip install nose simplejson Flask-SQLAlchemy Flask-MongoEngine Flask-Mail py-bcrypt Flask Flask-Login Flask-Principal itsdangerous passlib


Apply this diff to disable mongo tests and use sqlite instead of postgres:

diff --git a/tests/functional_tests.py b/tests/functional_tests.py
index c9fd8da..478bc89 100644
--- a/tests/functional_tests.py
+++ b/tests/functional_tests.py
@@ -199,11 +199,11 @@ class DefaultSecurityTests(SecurityTest):
         self.assertNotIn('BadSignature', r.data)


-class MongoEngineSecurityTests(DefaultSecurityTests):
+# class MongoEngineSecurityTests(DefaultSecurityTests):

-    def _create_app(self, auth_config):
-        from tests.test_app.mongoengine import create_app
-        return create_app(auth_config)
+#     def _create_app(self, auth_config):
+#         from tests.test_app.mongoengine import create_app
+#         return create_app(auth_config)


 class DefaultDatastoreTests(SecurityTest):
@@ -229,8 +229,8 @@ class DefaultDatastoreTests(SecurityTest):
         self.assertIn('success', r.data)


-class MongoEngineDatastoreTests(DefaultDatastoreTests):
+# class MongoEngineDatastoreTests(DefaultDatastoreTests):

-    def _create_app(self, auth_config):
-        from tests.test_app.mongoengine import create_app
-        return create_app(auth_config)
+#     def _create_app(self, auth_config):
+#         from tests.test_app.mongoengine import create_app
+#         return create_app(auth_config)
diff --git a/tests/test_app/sqlalchemy.py b/tests/test_app/sqlalchemy.py
index 0cf2e9c..9029651 100644
--- a/tests/test_app/sqlalchemy.py
+++ b/tests/test_app/sqlalchemy.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ from tests.test_app import create_app as create_base_app, populate_data, \
 def create_app(config, register_blueprint=True):
     app = create_base_app(config)

-    app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] = 'mysql://root@localhost/flask_security_test'
+    app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] = 'sqlite://'

     db = SQLAlchemy(app)

Run nosetest:

nosetest-2.7