On Mar 13, 2008, at 12:17 AM, Mikel Lindsaar wrote: > I have looked through the docs, looked at the code, even gave a > cursory (2 page) glance at google, and it is not clear to me what > SpecServer is or what it is for. > > Is it meant to speed up the execution of specs in a rails environment > by doing some magic on the database?
The spec server does no magic. It load the rails environment, and the runs the specs through Drb (look up the rdoc for Drb/Rinda). > Or I am thinking it keeps a copy of Rails running to avoid the rails > reload delay... Yep - that's pretty much it. It usually takes a few seconds to load up the rails environment, and if you are running your specs every few seconds, that can shave off a lot of time from your dev cycle over time. > > Is there any documentation on this so I can go find out instead of > bugging the list? :) No - not really. All you need to do is start the spec_server: ruby script/spec_server The specs can then be run through the server with --drb (put it in spec.opts, if you always want to use it). Scott _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
