[LRUG] Making your tests run fast enough?

[Mark Burns]

Preferring mocks over factories can help. Spork can help too by preloading
the Rails environment.
That's tended to be enough for me, although you can do distributed tests
too.

https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories/distributed_testing

Also I presume you're not hitting the web, but if you are then VCR with
WebMock is good


On 24 January 2012 19:02, Jonathan <j.fantham at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mine are really slow, but yesterday Glenn made a suggestion of using a
> ramdisk to speed the database access which seemed like a good idea! I
> haven't had the opportunity to try it yet but I read into it and if
> you're on *nix it seems pretty easy to do.
>
> On 24 January 2012 09:57, Joel Chippindale
> <joel.chippindale at econsultancy.com> wrote:
> > Test speed seems to be a perennial issue for our team.
> >
> > Currently running a single spec file in our rails (v3.0, running under
> REE)
> > app takes about 20 seconds and running a single cucumber scenario 30+
> > seconds. This is too slow for comfortable test driven development/design.
> >
> > We've recently started using the spec_no_rails pattern (as outlined by
> Corey
> > Haines
> > here http://www.confreaks.com/videos/641-gogaruco2011-fast-rails-tests)
> to
> > avoid loading rails, in some of our specs. This has enabled us to run
> some
> > of our specs in couple of seconds (i.e. fast enough). However this
> currently
> > only applies to the small subset of our specs that we have isolated from
> > rails. We'd like it if all our tests ran this fast.
> >
> > How fast are your tests/specs/cucumber? Are they fast enough for you? If
> > they are, what have you done to make this so?
> >
> > J.
> >
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> >
> >
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