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LuckyLuke
LuckyLuke

Reputation: 49057

RSpec takes forever

I have just started doing TDD (and basically testing in general so bear with me). I am following The Rails Tutorial and I now have the following in the spec folder:

require 'spec_helper'

describe PagesController do

  describe "GET 'home'" do
    it "returns http success" do
      get 'home'
      response.should be_success
    end
  end

  describe "GET 'contact'" do
    it "returns http success" do
      get 'contact'
      response.should be_success
    end
  end

end

The whole process from when I tap the play button saying that I want to run the tests until it is done take 38.75 seconds!! The two tests take 6.0053 seconds. What is going on in Ruby-land?

I don't know yet if this is integration testing or unit testing but I read a post about making one directory with integration tests and another with unit tests. I am using RubyMine on a PC with Windows 7 and SSD. How can I do TDD if I have to wait 40 seconds each time I run the test?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 888

Answers (1)

Zedrian
Zedrian

Reputation: 909

Its because every time you autotest or rspec test your Rails tests, it needs to load the entire Rails environment. One way to avoid re-loading the entire Rails environment for each test is to use Spork

Spork Docs

Spork Railscasts by Ryan Bates

and a lot is covered about Rspec and how to set it up at:

Ruby On Rails Tutorial book by Michael Hartl

Upvotes: 2

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