Hi all, where I work we’ve cooked up a kind of ghetto profiler for our
specs. It basically just does this:
time = Time.now
run the spec
puts “woah! dude. long spec.” if time > 1.second
I’m simplifying here. I think the threshold is actually 0.1 seconds,
and we use more precise language, and highlight the spec in red via
terminal colors, etc.
But the way it works is a bit ghetto. We just manually hacked it onto
the Rails example groups (it’s a Rails project) and then added a shell
env var to turn it on and off.
What’s the cleanest way to implement this? Add a -profiling
command-line flag to spec itself? Is there a single point of entry and
exit for running individual specs that I can put the code around? It’s
currently manually hacked onto each example group individually and it
seems a bit untidy.
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On Jan 4, 2008 9:55 AM, Giles B. [email protected] wrote:
But the way it works is a bit ghetto. We just manually hacked it onto
the Rails example groups (it’s a Rails project) and then added a shell
env var to turn it on and off.
What’s the cleanest way to implement this?
Hey Giles, we’ve already done this for you!
spec some_directory --format profile
This will print out the 10 slowest examples (regardless of threshold).
Cheers, and welcome to the RSpec community!
David
On rspec’s specs I have noticed they have a profiling flag that they
pass into the spec command. What is does is print out the longest specs
with there times. So you may not have to rewrite this… I have tried
using the flag on my own projects but it didn’t work. Maybe someone
from the dev team could enlighten us on how to use that nifty trick?
-Ben
“ghetto profiler”: how appropriate for rails work these days.
You might ask on the rspec-devel list if you haven’t already.
http://rubyforge.org/mail/?group_id=797
While you’re waiting for a response, consider watching Zed’s
interpretive piece in which he channels the King:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmVFnhO3A98
/g
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On Jan 4, 2008 10:14 AM, Ben M. [email protected] wrote:
On rspec’s specs I have noticed they have a profiling flag that they
pass into the spec command. What is does is print out the longest specs
with there times. So you may not have to rewrite this… I have tried
using the flag on my own projects but it didn’t work. Maybe someone
from the dev team could enlighten us on how to use that nifty trick?
It should just work with --format profile. What are you experiencing
when you do that?
On Jan 4, 2008 10:55 AM, Ben M. [email protected] wrote:
It should just work with --format profile. What are you experiencing
when you do that?
I just tried that and it worked great, thanks. Before, I didn’t realize
it was a formatter and thought it was its own flag. Thanks!
n/p
Glad you got it working.
Cheers,
David
David C. wrote:
when you do that?
I just tried that and it worked great, thanks. Before, I didn’t realize
it was a formatter and thought it was its own flag. Thanks!
-Ben
Hey Giles, we’ve already done this for you!
spec some_directory --format profile
This will print out the 10 slowest examples (regardless of threshold).
Cheers, and welcome to the RSpec community!
Doh! Gracias. 
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Giles B.
Podcast: http://hollywoodgrit.blogspot.com
Blog: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com
Portfolio: http://www.gilesgoatboy.org
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