Given the limitation Justin just mentioned, an easy performance win is to switch your testing environment to use an in-memory db. You could also parallelize your specs to use all cores on your machine.
Best, Sidu. http://c42.in http://about.me/ponnappa On 26 May 2011 00:30, Ken Egervari <ken.egerv...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am using factory_girl, and I have discovered that it is chiefly > responsible for making my tests run slow. > > I have posted a question about this on Stack Overflow: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6128476/how-can-i-get-factory-girl-to-never-hit-the-database-if-i-am-calling-factory-buil > > Anyway, I was curious what you guys use to create Factories? > > 1. Do you put up with Factory_girl? > 2. Did you configure Factory_girl differently to make it run faster? > 3. Do you use something else? May I ask what? > > Thanks! > > Ken > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
