What's wrong with using spork? Works well for me. The issue I've found is rails loading everything. So the only 'simple fix' is the spork kind (ie process fork)
Cheers, Jason On 23/11/2011, at 7:46 AM, Ash Moran <ash.mo...@patchspace.co.uk> wrote: > Hi > > I've worked on a couple of Rails 3 apps recently and the test feedback loop > is killing me. With no modifications, it takes 15-25 seconds to run a single > example. I've avoided Spork so far, but I've tried Spin[1]. Spin shaves a few > seconds off but it's still agonising. I've also experimented with multiple > Guard groups and other hacks to run isolated code in lib/, but a lot of the > code can't be isolated (all the controllers, for example). > > My last resort is to try and run Rails against an environment with > `config.cache_classes = false`. Has anyone tried this (and got it working)? I > imagine it would have to run tests over DRb, which I've only used with Spork > before. The last mention of "cache_classes" on this list was in 2009, so I > thought I'd check before I invested time in it in case there any major > obstacles. > > Any help appreciated > > Cheers > Ash > > > [1] http://jstorimer.github.com/spin/ > > -- > http://www.patchspace.co.uk/ > http://www.linkedin.com/in/ashmoran > > _______________________________________________ > 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
