default working directory

Same issue here, I need to pass a `-c config-file` option to py.test, but I cannot create sane defaults:

- taking the working directory from defaults would solve my problem, but this is not the case as stated above

- I could not find a way to interpolate the "project root dir" variable in the "Additional arguments" field, otherwise I could have used something like `-c ${projectRoot}/config-file`. Also, I don't want to create a custom path variable as it won't work out of the box for my colleagues).

Until one of these two issues is fixed, for each new test that I want to run, I need to:

- run the test

- wait for it to fail because the configuration is wrong

- edit the configuration manually

- re-run the test

Not a great workflow, unfortunately...

Hi Romainchossart! I believe one can set default working directory for tests in default run configurations:

Make sure you are using the latest stable version. Has it helped in your case?

On my build (2017.1.2), setting this value has no effect when running a new test from the editor: the working directory is always set to the test file directory.

Yeap, this behaviour was recently fixed, would you mind trying 2017.1.4 or (2017.2 EAP)?

Ha, I confirm the behaviour is fixed on 2017.1.4, thanks! <3

I have this kind of structure for projects:

    project-name

         - src

         - tests

So root dir is project-name and all tests and source code should run with project-name as root directory. I change Templates setting, mark directory as source. But anyway, I still correct working directory manually every time when I run new test. 

PS after restart it began to work. Anyway. Is it marked in documentation how to setup run/tests config root directory? Firstly I looked at the dock, marking directory as source etc etc etc. And now figure it out. Looks like it is not very clear in documentation.

This works as a project-wide setting. How can this be set so that all default run configurations (across all projects) use the root path of the respective project?

Hi Fabio,

Maybe I have misunderstood, but have you tried https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/changing-default-run-debug-configurations.html?

Hi Sergey,

thanks for checking back.

As I said, this works fine on a per-project basis.

The issue is that I have to do this for every new project (and for run as well as test configurations) again every time.

I would like a default for all run configurations across all projects.

E.g. a global setting could have the value $PROJECT_ROOT so that all run configurations have the working directory default to their respective project root

Is it clearer now?

Thank you for the update.

Ah, I see.

No, unfortunately this isn't possible at the moment. See https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-65915 and https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-137080. Please vote for them and follow for future updates. See https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/207241135-How-to-follow-YouTrack-issues-and-receive-notifications if you are not familiar with YouTrack.

Ok, thanks for the fast responses and the links. Will do.

Just a note that this solution also works for Jest with Angular multi-project workspaces.  I'm using @angular-builders/jest and when I attempted to run a test directly from the editor I was getting and error like "Module <rootDir>/jest-setup.js in the setupFiles option was not found."  Setting the default project folder in the Jest configuration: