On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Pete Yandell <p...@notahat.com> wrote:
> > Has anyone done any profiling on their Rails app tests to work out > where the time goes? I've always wondered how much of the time testing > Rails apps is wasted on the database syncing disk writes, etc. If you > threw your test database on a ramdisk, how much performance would you > gain? > > I tried this once on our application (8min rspec runtime) and it made no difference. A) I have a SSD drive B) I don't use Swap I suspect that because the transactions aren't committed that they never hit the disk anyway. This is with Oracle, other DB's may behave differently. Cheers, Anthony -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-ocea...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
