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11. Speed up testing with Spork and Guard

Spork

Gemfile

group :test do
  gem 'spork'
  
end

Next, bootstrap the Spork configuration:

spork --bootstrap

Edit RSpec configuration file, spec/spec_helper.rb so that the environment gets loaded in a prefork block. which arranges for it to be loaded only once.

Spork.prefork do
  <old code goes here>
end

Spork.each_run do
end

Similarly for the file:

feature/support/env.rb

Run RSpec without Spork

$ time rspec spec

Now with Spork

$ spork           # for RSpec
$ spork cucumber  # for Cucumber

Then leave the terminal there. Spork is ready and listening on 8989! ...
In another terminal

$ time rspec --drb spec/
($ time cucumber --drb)

Adding the --drb option to the .rspec file.

--colour
--drb

Guard

Guard is a modular filesystem event monitor utility written in Ruby. We will utilize a plugin for Guard that allows us to monitor changes to Rails files and restart Spork when necessary:

Start Spork via Guard. The first thing we need to do is to tell Guard about spork. Add guard definition to your Guardfile with:

$ guard init spork
$ guard init cucumber
$ guard init rspec

$ guard start