With Minitest+Guard+Spork, all test suites and support files are being reloaded on each run
guard, minitest, ruby-on-rails-3, spork
Solution
It appears that Spork and Minitest were actually not working as expected. In order to fix this, the following changes had to be made:
Inside of the Guardfile, `:drb => true` had to be added to minitest:
guard 'minitest', :drb => true do
#...
end
However that alone will break guard/minitest/spork because it tries to force feed it the `-r -e` options which are not currently supported. You'll run into the following error:
Running: test/models/business_test.rb
Running tests with args ["-r", "/Users/chance/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/guard-minitest-0.5.0/lib/guard/minitest/runners/default_runner.rb", "-e", "::GUARD_NOTIFY=true", "test/test_helper.rb", "./test/models/business_test.rb"]...
Exception encountered: #<LoadError: cannot load such file -- -r>
backtrace:
/Users/chance/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-3.2.8/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:251:in `require'
/Users/chance/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-3.2.8/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:251:in `block in require'
/Users/chance/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-3.2.8/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:236:in `load_dependency'
/Users/chance/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-3.2.8/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:251:in `require'
/Users/chance/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/spork-minitest-0.0.3/lib/spork/test_framework/minitest.rb:13:in `block in run_tests'
/Users/chance/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/spork-minitest-0.0.3/lib/spork/test_framework/minitest.rb:12:in `each'
/Users/chance/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/spork-minitest-0.0.3/lib/spork/test_framework/minitest.rb:12:in `run_tests'
/Users/chance/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/spork-0.9.2/lib/spork/run_strategy/forking.rb:13:in `block in run'
/Users/chance/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/spork-0.9.2/lib/spork/forker.rb:21:in `block in initialize'
/Users/chance/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/spork-0.9.2/lib/spork/forker.rb:18:in `fork'
/Users/chance/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/spork-0.9.2/lib/spork/forker.rb:18:in `initialize'
/Users/chance/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/spork-0.9.2/lib/spork/run_strategy/forking.rb:9:in `new'
/Users/chance/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/spork-0.9.2/lib/spork/run_strategy/forking.rb:9:in `run'
/Users/chance/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/spork-0.9.2/lib/spork/server.rb:48:in `run'
/Users/chance/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/1.9.1/drb/drb.rb:1548:in `perform_without_block'
/Users/chance/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/1.9.1/drb/drb.rb:1508:in `perform'
/Users/chance/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/1.9.1/drb/drb.rb:1586:in `block (2 levels) in main_loop'
/Users/chance/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/1.9.1/drb/drb.rb:1582:in `loop'
/Users/chance/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/1.9.1/drb/drb.rb:1582:in `block in main_loop'
Done.
Fortunately, there is a pull request for spork-minitest that fixes it.
Once the gem was pointed over to the repo, it took a nice cut out of the load times. It isn't anywhere near as fast as node.js and mocha, but it is at least faster than rspec.
Problem
I'm running into a problem where everything in my test setup, including Spork's prefork block, is being reloaded and invoked on each run. It is taking 5-8 seconds for a test to fire off after guard picks up a change even though this is a new project so there are minimal tests and I even have an SSD. Before I realized everything was reloading, I profiled it using the technique described by Jo Liss here and I've included those hanging requires but obviously that didn't help since it's all being reloaded anyway. However, that's when I noticed this: Loaded Suite test,test/controllers,test/controllers/manage,test/factories,test/functional/manage,test/helpers,test/helpers/manage,test/integration,test/models,test/support I'm not seeing why it would reload everything. This is my first attempt at setting up minitest+spork+guard (i should have just gone with rspec, sigh) so I'm hoping it's something stupid. I'm including everything in hopes that someone has run into it or can easily spot what I've missed. Thanks in advance! My files include: test_helper.rb ``` require 'spork' Spork.prefork do #MiniTest::Rails.override_testunit! ENV["RAILS_ENV"] = "test" require File.expand_path('../../config/environment', __FILE__) require 'guard' require 'guard/interactors/readline' require 'guard/ui' require 'guard/interactors/coolline' require 'guard/interactor' require 'guard/dsl' require 'guard/notifiers/rb_notifu' require 'guard/notifier' require 'guard/minitest/notifier' require 'guard/minitest/runners/default_runner' Dir[File.expand_path('test/support/*.rb')].each { |file| require file } require "mocha" Spork.trap_method(Rails::Application, :reload_routes!) Spork.trap_method(Rails::Application::RoutesReloader, :reload!) end ``` Guardfile ``` guard 'bundler' do watch('Gemfile') # Uncomment next line if Gemfile contain `gemspec' command # watch(/^.+\.gemspec/) end guard 'spork', :wait => 65, :test_unit => false, :minitest => true, :minitest_env => { 'RAILS_ENV' => 'test' }, :bundler => true do watch('config/application.rb') watch('config/environment.rb') watch(%r{^config/environments/.+\.rb$}) watch(%r{^config/initializers/.+\.rb$}) watch('Gemfile') watch('Gemfile.lock') watch('test/test_helper.rb') { "test" } end guard 'minitest' do watch(%r|^test/test_helper\.rb|) { "test" } watch(%r|^test/support/(.*)\.rb|) { "test" } watch(%r{^test/.+_test\.rb$}) watch(%r|^app/models/(.*)\.rb|) {|m| ["test/models/#{m[1]}_test.rb", "test/integration/#{m[1]}_test.rb"] } watch(%r|^app/controllers/(.*)\.rb|) {|m| ["test/controllers/#{m[1]}_test.rb", "test/integration/#{m[1]}_test.rb"] } watch(%r|^app/views/(.*)\.html|) {|m| "test/integration/#{m[1]}_test.rb" } watch(%r|^app/objects/(.*)\.rb|) {|m| "test/objects/#{m[1]}_object_test.rb" } end guard 'livereload' do watch(%r{app/.+\.(erb|haml)}) watch(%r{app/helpers/.+\.rb}) watch(%r{(public/|app/assets).+\.(css|js|html)}) watch(%r{(app/assets/.+\.css)\.scss}) { |m| m[1] } watch(%r{(app/assets/.+\.js)\.coffee}) { |m| m[1] } watch(%r{config/locales/.+\.yml}) end ``` support/minitest.rb ``` #require "minitest/autorun" require "minitest/rails" require "minitest/spec" require "minitest/pride" require "minitest/rails/shoulda" require "minitest/autorun" require "capybara/rails" class RequestSpec < MiniTest::Spec include Rails.application.routes.url_helpers include Capybara::DSL include Rails.application.routes.url_helpers end MiniTest::Spec.register_spec_type /integration$/i, RequestSpec #MiniTest::Spec.register_spec_type /object$/, MiniTest::Spec class MiniTest::Rails::Controller include Devise::TestHelpers end ``` support/turn.rb ``` require 'turn' require 'turn/autorun' require 'turn/colorize' require 'turn/reporter' require 'turn/reporters/pretty_reporter' Turn.config do |c| c.natural = true c.ansi = true c.format = :pretty end ``` Gemfile ``` source 'https://rubygems.org' # core gem 'rails', '3.2.8' gem 'thin' # infrastructure gem 'heroku' gem 'foreman', :groups => [:development, :test] # application monitoring gem 'airbrake' gem 'newrelic_rpm' # view engine gem 'haml', '>= 3.1.7' gem 'haml-rails', '>= 0.3.5' gem 'redcarpet' # markdown # data persistence gem 'mongoid', '>= 3.0.5' gem 'redis' gem 'redis-store' gem 'redis-rails' # email gem 'sendgrid' gem 'mailcatcher', :group => [:development] # authentication and authorization gem 'devise', '>= 2.1.2' gem 'omniauth', '>= 1.0' #gem 'authority' gem 'cancan' gem 'rolify', '>= 3.2.0' # view helpers gem 'bootstrap-generators', '~> 2.1', :group => [:development] gem 'jquery-rails' gem 'simple_form', '>= 2.0.2' gem 'rails3-jquery-autocomplete' # file attachments gem 'rmagick' gem 'fog' gem 'carrierwave' gem 'carrierwave-mongoid', :require => 'carrierwave/mongoid' # url helpers gem 'mongoid_slug' # console tools gem 'ansi', :groups => [:development, :test] gem 'rack-livereload', :groups => [:development] gem 'pry-rails', :groups => [:development] gem 'growl', :groups => [:development, :test] gem 'turn', :groups => [:test] gem 'awesome_print' gem 'progress_bar', :groups => [:test] # supporting libraries gem 'bson_ext' gem 'nokogiri', :group => :test gem 'ruby_parser', '>= 2.3.1', :group => :test gem 'rb-fsevent', '~> 0.9.1', :group => :development # assets gem 'less-rails', :group => :assets gem 'therubyracer', '>= 0.10.2', :group => :assets gem 'uglifier', '>= 1.0.3', :group => :assets # guard gem 'guard', :group => :development gem 'guard-livereload', :group => :development gem 'guard-spork', :group => :development gem 'guard-minitest', :group => :development gem 'guard-bundler', :group => :development # minitest gem 'spork-minitest', :group => :test gem 'minitest-rails', :group => :test gem 'minitest-rails-shoulda', :group => :test, :git => 'git://github.com/rawongithub/minitest-rails-shoulda.git' gem 'capybara_minitest_spec', :group => :test # mocking gem 'mocha', :group => :test # http testing gem 'vcr', :group => :test gem 'webmock', :group => :test # factories gem 'factory_girl_rails' ```