On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 6:38 AM, Rainer Kuhn <rai...@incutio.com> wrote: > I have started with a blank spec_helper and I'm seeing lots of improvements > regarding the focus tag. Not the 12sec load time however. Let me do some > legwork first and I present you with the results in a couple of hours. > Tomorrow perhaps since I have a couple of hours of urgent dev work my list. > > My current spec_helper is a huge mess copy pasted from multiple sources over > a period of 4 months. I'm really not proud of it especially since I'm using > spec since 2008. Read it and weep: > https://gist.github.com/2881400
There's a lot there. Redis, fog, all the macros modules. Any of them could be contributing. > On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 12:24 PM, David Chelimsky <dchelim...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Rainer Kuhn <rai...@incutio.com> wrote: >> > [This is my third and final attempt to post to this group, first 2 were >> > with >> > google groups] >> >> The google group is a mirror of the rspec-users list, but for that to >> work you actually have to post to the rspec-users list, not the google >> group. We're considering retiring that list and only using the google >> group, at which point you'd be able to post directly to the google >> group. >> >> > I noticed that focusing a single spec takes ages to run. We commonly use >> > that, often in combination with guard to speed up our spec runs. I admit >> > that the overall performance of our specs is bad, since we ditched >> > mocking >> > entirely and went with semi-integration specs on all levels. But this >> > practice has served us very well on picking up failures. >> > >> > All runs on a single spec with focus: true that only tests (2 + >> > 2).should == >> > 4, among 700 other specs. >> > Any ideas how to profile or even fix that? >> > >> > # What I want to get: >> > $ time rspec spec/models/user_spec.rb:5 >> > Finished in 1.41 seconds 1 example, 0 failures >> > real 0m13.768s >> > user 0m11.269s >> > sys 0m1.692s >> >> Wow. This is _not_ what I'd want to get. Nearly 14 secs to run a >> single example sounds like you're suffering some serious startup time. >> What version of rspec, ruby, rails, etc are you running? >> >> > # What I get using the focus tag: >> > $ time rake spec >> > Finished in 2.1 seconds 1 example, 0 failures >> > real 1m5.502s >> > user 0m46.467s >> > sys 0m14.455s >> >> When you run `rake spec` it loads up the Rails development environment >> (because that's the environment you're running rake in) and then >> shells out the `rspec spec` command with the Rails test environment. >> That's why `rake spec` will always take longer than running `rspec >> spec`. >> >> > $time rspec spec >> > Finished in 1.39 seconds 1 example, 0 failures >> > real 0m51.350s >> > user 0m36.069s >> > sys 0m12.842s >> >> When you run with `--tag focus` on the command line, or >> `config.filter_run_including :focus`, rspec evaluates the metadata for >> every example in the suite in order to find the one(s) that match(es) >> the tag. It's possible that you've got a filter in your config or in a >> spec that takes a long time to evaluate. What's in RSpec.configure in >> spec/spec_helper.rb? >> >> David >> _______________________________________________ >> rspec-users mailing list >> rspec-users@rubyforge.org >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > > > > > -- > Rainer Kuhn > > Rails Developer > Incutio :: www.incutio.com > http://www.facebook.com/Incutio > https://twitter.com/incutio > > UK Head Office: Unit 4, The Bridge Business Centre, Ash Road South, Wrexham, > LL13 9UG. > > US Head Office: 33 South Commercial Street, Manchester, NH 03101 > > T: +44 (0) 1978 661 666 > F: +44 (0)7092 181 581 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
