From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-09-14T06:22:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Slow RAILS testing

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?
I think you can run SQLite in-memory.  The Rails people would know more, 
though:

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk

I tend to factor tests so that they don't use Rails' built-in fixtures, 
though - you really don't need to test the database interface, so it's 
pure overhead.

-- 
Alex