I’m developing against stable and I just found I am no longer able to execute backend tests. Not just my own tests, but also those of standard plugins. They all error out with the same reason. $ bin/rspec plugins/discourse-subscriptions/ Detected plugin spec path, setting LOAD_PLUGINS to 1 An erro…

It looks like your test DB isn’t loading plugin migrations. Try running: RAILS_ENV=test LOAD_PLUGINS=1 bin/rails db:migrate This ensures plugin migrations are applied to the test database. This issue matches what was discussed here: [image] Undeclared attribute type for enu…

Unable to run rspec tests for plugins

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elmuerte November 24, 2025, 3:48pm 3

D’oh! That’s it. I should have checked my shell history.

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Unable to run rspec tests for plugins

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