Turbocharge Your Ruby Testing with Parallel Specs

Courtesy Ruby Inside  Tue, 07/28/2009 - 16:02

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(called "the best blog post ever written" by one commenter) Jason Morrison of Thoughtbot demonstrates how to use Michael Grosser's Parallel Specs project to speed up your Ruby tests.

Parallel Specs provides a set of Rake tasks to run specs and tests in parallel, therefore using multiple CPUs (or cores) to multiply your testing power.

It does not yet work with Cucumber features but Jason recommends testjour for that...


 

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