We have about 2,000 specs in a Rails app that take roughly 80 seconds
to run, and I’m trying to improve the performance of things a bit.
While the profile mode has proven useful so far, it only shows the top
ten slowest specs. Unfortunately, we have lot of specs, and we’ve
picked off all the low-hanging fruit – the ones remaining are all <
~0.1 sec or less. I’d like to streamline things further by seeing if
there’s a way to get information about slow spec files (not just
individual specs), because I suspect that slower specs will be next to
other slow specs.
Any ideas about how I can get this information, or do I need to roll
my own benchmarker?
Any ideas about how I can get this information, or do I need to roll
my own benchmarked?
Hi John
While not an answer to your question, you might like this post “Why I
dont use spork” as an alternative perspective. Kevin’s argument is that
“Spork solves the wrong problem”.
After Nikolay taught me that you can have multiple RSpec guards in a
Guardfile, having a Rails-independent lib with continuous development
testing seems pretty feasible. (I haven’t tried it, but I’m tangentially
involved in a project where we may be able to give it a go.)
BTW there’s also the Destroy All Software screencast “Fast Tests With
and Without Rails”[2] which I found yesterday, sounds to describe the
same idea. I haven’t watched it yet though (maybe somebody else here
has?) - $9 is a lot of money to spend on a whim you know
