[rspec-users] Spec/Test Speed

[Scott Taylor]

>
> If your test suite and application are fully open source and you don't
> mind someone playing with it, I'm collecting benchmark suites for the
> Ruby interpreter and would love to have a nice heavy "rspec" run as an
> example of real-world Ruby usage. Contact me off-list if you're
> interested, or if you want me to show you how to profile the Ruby
> interpreter itself on your test case.
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Unfortunately, the app isn't open source, although I do have one  
other app, and a rails plugins which both have specs:

http://rubyforge.org/projects/replacefixtures/
http://rubyforge.org/projects/datedbackup/

Those don't hit a database, so they are incredibly fast:

Finished in 0.19639 seconds

257 examples, 2 failures, 4 pending

I'm going to give the profiler a shot, plus compiling ruby from  
source (I'm using the fink package manager, after having ditched  
darwin ports).  I'll see where that leaves me.

As for running the profiler - is there an easy way to wrap the blocks/ 
closures given to an 'it' example with the profiler?  (I haven't  
contacted you off list since I'm sure others would benefit from this  
information).

Other, more general ideas are still welcome...

Scott