I could more then double the speed of my tests by avoiding fixtures
reload on each test and using transactions. Have a look at
http://dev.zenadmin.org/browser/trun...test_er.rb and
http://dev.zenadmin.org/browser/trunk/test/zena_test.rb.

It sure ed me (and I will now try Travis' HEAP idea on top of that).

Gaspard

2007/9/14, Travis D Warlick Jr <warlickt@operissystems.com>:
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> > 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?
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> You can use Heap tables with MySQL if you wish. This SQL statement will convert
> a table into a Heap (memory-resident) table:
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> ALTER TABLE tablename TYPE=HEAP;
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