Mix test, configs and umbrella

Questions / Help
1

If I have 2 apps in a umbrella project. They each have their own config/test.exs. If I run mix test in app1 everything works fine, however if I then run mix test in app2, it’s still using the configuration from app1. Anyway to force this to update?

The more detailed answer is that one of the umbrella apps is more of a shared library. We use the configs to do some injection, and the test.exs for the shared library has something like:

config :project, :queue,
   consumer: Project.Common.Fakes.Queue

In the other apps, that consumer references a different implementation (it references the real implementation, in those cases, since we’re not interested in re-unit testing the queue consumer, we’re interested in testing the queue consumption from that apps point of view). So, something like:

config :project, :queue,
   consumer: Project.App1.Consumer

But, switching from app to app doesn’t run the “correct” app’s consumer. It uses whatever the last one was when it had to recompile.

2

There is only one :project application, so it has only one set of settings. It can’t use two different things at once.

3

Your answer pointed me to a simple solution.

I just took out the:

config_path: "../../config/config.exs",

and let it use the default config path, so each app has its own config.