I am developing a Rails project via a Vagrant box (Ubuntu 32-bit, Rails 4.0.3, Ruby 2.1.0p0).
I've just tried adding Spork to my project to speed up my tests (using RSpec, Capybara), and am seeing significantly slower tests. If I run simply "rspec .", all my tests pass in 5.83 seconds. However, when I run guard via "guard -c -p", I save one of my spec files, and I get a time of 26.08 seconds.
Note: I have to run "guard -p" to actually get guard to run my tests on file save through Vagrant.
When guard starts running the tests, it shows the args:
["--color", "--failure-exit-code", "2", "--format", "progress", "--format",
"Guard::RSpec::Formatter", "--require", "/home/vagrant/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0/
gems/guard-rspec-4.2.7/lib/guard/rspec/formatter.rb", "spec"]...
I see that "--format" is listed twice, and "--drb" is not showing up at all.
Here's my Guardfile:
guard 'spork', :rspec_env => { 'RAILS_ENV' => 'test' }, :test_unit => false do
watch('config/application.rb')
watch('config/environment.rb')
watch('config/environments/test.rb')
watch(%r{^config/initializers/.+\.rb$})
watch('Gemfile.lock')
watch('spec/spec_helper.rb') { :rspec }
end
guard :rspec, :cmd => 'rspec --drb' do
watch(%r{^spec/.+_spec\.rb$})
watch(%r{^lib/(.+)\.rb$}) { |m| "spec/lib/#{m[1]}_spec.rb" }
watch('spec/spec_helper.rb') { "spec" }
# Rails example
watch(%r{^app/(.+)\.rb$}) { |m| "spec/#{m[1]}_spec.rb" }
watch(%r{^app/(.*)(\.erb|\.haml|\.slim)$}) { |m| "spec/#{m[1]}#{m[2]}_spec.rb" }
watch(%r{^app/controllers/(.+)_(controller)\.rb$}) { |m| ["spec/routing/#{m[1]}_routing_spec.rb", "spec/#{m[2]}s/#{m[1]}_#{m[2]}_spec.rb", "spec/acceptance/#{m[1]}_spec.rb"] }
watch(%r{^spec/support/(.+)\.rb$}) { "spec" }
watch('config/routes.rb') { "spec/routing" }
watch('app/controllers/application_controller.rb') { "spec/controllers" }
end
guard 'livereload' do
watch(%r{app/views/.+\.(erb|haml|slim)$})
watch(%r{app/helpers/.+\.rb})
watch(%r{public/.+\.(css|js|html)})
watch(%r{config/locales/.+\.yml})
# Rails Assets Pipeline
watch(%r{(app|vendor)(/assets/\w+/(.+\.(css|js|html|png|jpg))).*}) { |m| "/assets/#{m[3]}" }
end
Here is my spec_helper.rb:
require 'rubygems'
require 'spork'
#uncomment the following line to use spork with the debugger
#require 'spork/ext/ruby-debug'
Spork.prefork do
# Loading more in this block will cause your tests to run faster. However,
# if you change any configuration or code from libraries loaded here, you'll
# need to restart spork for it take effect.
# This file is copied to spec/ when you run 'rails generate rspec:install'
ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= 'test'
require File.expand_path("../../config/environment", __FILE__)
require 'rspec/rails'
require 'rspec/autorun'
require 'capybara/rspec'
# Requires supporting ruby files with custom matchers and macros, etc,
# in spec/support/ and its subdirectories.
Dir[Rails.root.join("spec/support/**/*.rb")].each { |f| require f }
# Checks for pending migrations before tests are run.
# If you are not using ActiveRecord, you can remove this line.
ActiveRecord::Migration.check_pending! if defined?(ActiveRecord::Migration)
RSpec.configure do |config|
config.use_transactional_fixtures = true
config.infer_base_class_for_anonymous_controllers = false
config.order = "random"
#Devise
config.include Devise::TestHelpers, type: :controller
#Capybara
config.include Capybara::DSL
end
end
Spork.each_run do
# This code will be run each time you run your specs.
end
The only thing in my .rspec :
--color
The relevant part of my Gemfile:
group :development, :test do
gem 'rspec-rails', '~> 2.0'
gem 'factory_girl_rails'
gem 'guard-rspec'
gem 'guard-livereload'
gem 'spork-rails'
gem 'guard-spork'
end
group :test do
gem 'shoulda-matchers'
gem 'capybara'
end
I've noticed that if I have guard running, then save a file, at times I will get an error:
Could not start Spork server for rspec after 30 seconds. I will continue
waiting for a further 60 seconds.
I'm not sure why it's taking so long after installing Spork, especially when rspec is much faster going through the same Vagrant box. Any ideas?