[rspec-users] Spec time reporting precision

[David Chelimsky]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Ronald Chaplin <t73net at t73.biz> wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 09:26 -0600, David Chelimsky wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Ronald Chaplin <t73net at t73.biz>
> > wrote:
> >         Hey all,
> >         So I woke up early this morning, and was running some tests
> >         through
> >         autospec, and it returned a time as follows:
> >
> >         Finished in 0.0151600000000001 seconds
> >
> >         I know that there are alot of other more important issues
> >         being
> >         addressed right now for the rspec project, (2.0 for Rails
> >         3.0). However,
> >         do we really need this level of precision for spec tests? I
> >         know that
> >         it's nice to see if your refactoring made any changes in
> >         overall
> >         performance. But do we really need it carried out to 16
> >         decimal places?
> >         Just seems like over kill to me.
> >
> >
> > Hey Ronald,
> >
> >
> > Is this actually causing you pain? RSpec isn't doing anything special
> > to get 16 decimal places here. It just uses Timeout from the standard
> > lib, which offers no API for precision. Reducing the precision would
> > require additional code in RSpec, and _that_ seems like overkill to
> > me :)
>
> Hey David,
> Great book btw. I'm learning so much and it has really helped me in my
> newbie days to ruby.
>

That's great to hear. Thanks!


> No, it's not a pain. Just seemed like overkill that it would report to
> such a finite decimal place is all. I guess that's the PHPer in me
> ackking @ the wasted numbers :p
>

:)

Thanks for playing!

Cheers,
David


> --
> Ronald Chaplin <t73net at t73.biz>
> T73 Biz
> >
> > Cheers,
> > David
> >
> >
> >         One solution I had thought about was simply having a boolean
> >         switch
> >         option for rspec called precise, wherein it would print
> >         shortened, less
> >         precise times for those who wanted it. I'd even be willing to
> >         do the leg
> >         work/patches for it if this doesn't seem like a crazy idea.
> >
> >         Just  self.trying_to + something.useful?
> >
> >         --
> >         Ronald Chaplin <t73net at t73.biz>
> >         T73 Biz
>
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