Yea, I've done this too. Basically in my chained :clone_structure I copy the 
schema migrations to the test database and have the same task along with :dump 
noop unless the migrations are out of sync. This way I get to avoid a costly 
clone which takes almost 2 minutes for my legacy database.

 - Ken

On Sep 24, 2010, at 12:45 AM, George wrote:

> 
> This is a nice ideal. However I agree with others who say that when
> the schema gets large, recreating it can be slow. And slow tests are a
> nightmare.
> 
> What if we could skip db:test:prepare if a NOPREP environment variable
> is given? Or had an extra set of tasks, say test:quick:unit etc, which
> skipped it? I've personally taken to doing the former in a large
> project.

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