Speeding up Testing
Testing a rails app can sometimes really suck… Part of it is loading the rails stack (20-30s), and part of it is how you design some aspects around test data creation (if it is expensive) and user login, etc.
A good combination to help on the technical side of things is spork and guard, as outlined here.
Once you have installed the necessary, you can use it quite simply:
<rails root>bundle exec guard start
Install
| Install Spork |
Gemfile
gem 'spork' |
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| create .rspec file |
$RAILS_ROOT/.rspec
--drb |
| initial config |
bundle exec spork --bootstrap |
| trial run |
v2$ bundle exec spork
Using RSpec, Rails
Preloading Rails environment
Loading Spork.prefork block...
Spork is ready and listening on 8989!
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| Get it to work | You have to use whatever code you currently have in your startup/spec_helper stuff for cucumber or rspec. And maybe add some more code when things still aren’t quite right! Or maybe remove some… Basically, move all of your spec_helper code into the prefork block, and adjust as necessary to make errors go away. |
| install Guard |
Gemfile
gem 'rb-fsevent' gem 'guard-spork' |
| initial config |
guard init spork |
| trial run |
bundle exec guard start |
| Get it to work | You might need to add some tweaks to the Guardfile. For example, increasing the wait time, and maybe adding other files to watch over for changes.
Guardfile
# Guardfile Configuration
# More info at https://github.com/guard/guard#readme
guard 'spork', :wait => 50, :cucumber_env => { 'RAILS_ENV' => 'test' },
:rspec_env => { 'RAILS_ENV' => 'test' } do
watch('config/application.rb')
watch('config/environment.rb')
watch(%r{^config/environments/.+.rb$})
watch(%r{^config/initializers/.+.rb$})
watch('Gemfile')
watch('Gemfile.lock')
watch('spec/spec_helper.rb') { :rspec }
watch('test/test_helper.rb') { :test_unit }
watch(%r{features/support/}) { :cucumber }
end
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