[LRUG] Speeding up Cucumber

[Murray Steele]

A classic problem would be that it's not cucumber, but the app itself has a
long boot up period.  If the app takes a while to start up as a normal
server or console then perhaps look at tools like spring(
https://github.com/rails/spring) or zeus(https://github.com/burke/zeus) to
pre-load the environment so the tests don't take the boot up hit to run.


On 14 March 2014 12:41, Jon Wood <jon at ninjagiraffes.co.uk> wrote:

> Hello El Rug,
>
> I'm currently at my wits end with a Cucumber suite, but I also don't have
> any decent ideas on how to improve it. Running a really simple feature
> which loads a page and asserts some content is found currently takes over
> two minutes, which as I'm sure you can imagine makes doing BDD properly
> quite awkward.
>
> To give a little context this is a Rails 2.3 application, running on Ruby
> 1.8. Upgrading to a newer version of Ruby is in the backlog, but isn't a
> viable option right now.
>
> So, does anyone have any tips on speeding things up, or even just working
> out where I should start working to speed them up?
>
> Thanks,
> Jon
>
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