kevin cline wrote:
> My RAILS unit tests take approximately one minute to run. This may
> not sound like much, but it's a real drag on incremental development.
> I imagine most of the slowness in spent in applying the database
> schema to the test database. Is there a memory-resident database that
> would speed up my tests?
I think you can run SQLite in-memory. The Rails people would know more,
though:

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk

I tend to factor tests so that they don't use Rails' built-in fixtures,
though - you really don't need to test the database interface, so it's
pure overhead.

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Alex