From: Ron Jeffries Date: 2007-11-19T01:15:00+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby incredibly slow (update 2) On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:07:54 -0500, Ron Jeffries wrote: >To find out what's happening, I've been trying to figure out how to >make the test command > > ruby runner.rb ruby > >trace which tests are running, thinking that since some of the dots >take forever to come out and some come out quickly, that might be >interesting information, and lead to some understanding of what is >going on. > >sorry to be so ignorant, but what reformulation of that command would >run the tests named "ruby" and display some test names instead of just >dots? As a side note perhaps of interest, this command >ruby runner.rb --verbose=v --name=ruby which I typed in hoping that would run the ruby tests with more information coming out, takes almost //four minutes// to run and then reports Loaded suite . Started Finished in 0.0 seconds. 0 tests, 0 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors This must be some new kind of 0.0 seconds that I wasn't previously familiar with. Is this telling us that the /compile/ is taking all the time? Advice welcome ... thanks, Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com