Scott Taylor wrote: > On Feb 2, 2008, at 12:09 PM, Ben Mabey wrote: > > >> Ben Mabey wrote: >> >>> All, >>> Has anyone on this list tried to use DeepTest[1] with rspec? My >>> initial >>> attempts have failed so I would be really interested if someone has >>> figured it out. Thanks. >>> >>> -Ben >>> >>> 1. http://www.somethingnimble.com/bliki/deep-test >>> _______________________________________________ >>> rspec-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users >>> >>> >> Or maybe someone has some experience with spec_distributed they could >> share? I'm just trying to see if I can get my specs to run faster >> on my >> multi-core machines.... >> > > I haven't used deep test (this was by Dan Manges / Thoughtworks, > correct?). If I recall correctly, it only worked on test/unit. I > don't know if anyone else was working on a version for rspec... > Right.. There were some comments in Dan's original post about someone working on rspec compatibility but as far as I can tell that never made it into the gem. > As for spec_distributed, I had gotten it working, and as I recall, it > was pretty easy to do (at least, on a non-rails project). The > documentation for that is pretty straight forward. It solves the > speed problem by throwing hardware at the problem - If you have n > number of machines, your test suite should take 1/n the amount of > time it usually does on one machine (assuming the machines of equal > processing power). >
Does this really address the use of multicores on a single machine then? The only use I could see of this would be for running your CI faster over a number of machines... Thanks for you input, Ben _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
