From: George Malamidis <george@...>
Date: 2007-09-14T05:54:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Slow RAILS testing

Hello,

Do all your tests need to access the database? I find this approach  
( http://nutrun.com/weblog/rails-fast-test-suite/ ) useful in terms  
of instant feedback and application code responsibility boundaries.

Thanks,
George

On 13 Sep 2007, at 21:15, kevin cline wrote:

> My RAILS unit tests take approximately one minute to run.  This may
> not sound like much, but it's a real drag on incremental development.
> I imagine most of the slowness in spent in applying the database
> schema to the test database.  Is there a memory-resident database that
> would speed up my tests?
>
>