Bring more clarity on how to run unit tests (#449)

* The commit brings more clarity on how to run unut tests.

The commit chages behaivour of `make test-unit` by adding sourcing of
env vars. Documentation is updated to provide more clarity on how to run
unit tests.

* changed list of commands to run before unit tests

* moved env vars to .env

* removed dduplicated env var

* returned conventional file name in script

* link to DEVELOPMENT.md

* fixed typo

* moved env var export to script

* removed export of tmp folder

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Run `make setup-dev-env` to install local developer tools and run necessary
 services, such as mongodb, for the end-to-end tests.
 
 ## Unit Tests
-Run `make test-unit` to run the unit tests.
+For further details see [DEVELOPMENT.md](DEVELOPMENT.md#L84)
 
 ## End-to-End Tests
 End-to-End tests (e2e) are tests from the user perspective that validate that

DEVELOPMENT.md

@@ -80,3 +80,24 @@ Starting application at 127.0.0.1:3000
 
 And you'll be up and running. As you edit and save code, the `buffalo dev` command will notice and automatically
 re-compile and restart the server.
+
+# Run unit tests
+
+In order to run unit tests, services they depend on must be running first:
+
+```console
+make alldeps
+```
+
+and database created:
+
+```console
+buffalo db create
+buffalo db migrate up
+```
+
+then you can run the unit tests:
+
+```console
+make test-unit
+```

cmd/proxy/.env

@@ -1 +1,3 @@
 ATHENS_MONGO_STORAGE_URL=mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017
+GO_ENV=test_postgres
+POP_PATH=$PWD/cmd/proxy

scripts/test_unit.sh

@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 # test_unit.sh
+
+source cmd/proxy/.env
+
 # Run the unit tests with the race detector and code coverage enabled
 set -xeuo pipefail
-
 go test -race -coverprofile cover.out -covermode atomic ./...