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It took longer than expected, but I finally took the time to work more on the testing script, I wrote about a while ago.

No more waiting for the Rails environment to start up, when you want to run a test quickly.. and you get pretty HTML output. Check out a screencast of it.

It’s still in a very early stage and I’m sure there still a lot of bugs. But anyways, you can give it a try and install it via rubygems:

Installing the TextMate bundle

The TextMate bundle for it is shipped as part of the gem. To install it simply do:

Running tests faster via DRb

If you want to run tests with the client/server scripts, to avoid the startup time of the Rails environment, you gotta change your tests to load your controllers with require_dependency instead of require.

Example. Instead of having:

require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../test_helper'
require 'foo_controller'

# Re-raise errors caught by the controller.
class FooController; def rescue_action(e) raise e end; end

require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../test_helper'
require_dependency 'foo_controller'

# Re-raise errors caught by the controller.
class FooController; def rescue_action(e) raise e end; end