Tests Run S-L-O-W-L-Y in Windows

[larry]

I'm using NetBeans 6.1 under Windows XP and can't wait for 6.5. Love your IDE! Thank you!

The problem is that tests take forever to run. My home computer (a Dell) has a 3GHz Pentium 4 with 1GB of RAM. A simple test takes over 30 seconds; string a few together and you're talking over a minute!

At work I have an IBM ThinkPad with 3GB of memory and experience the same problem. Simple tests take about 90 seconds to run. Our entire suite of unit tests takes a few minutes to run on our Linux server - on my machine the same suite takes 45 minutes!

Will NetBeans 6.5 address and hopefully solve this problem?

Thanks,
Larry

[Erno Mononen]

Hi Larry,

Sounds pretty bad indeed. Is it the same both from the command line and
from the IDE? Are you using JRuby or MRI Ruby?

You can give 6.5 a try if you like
(http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/latest/). There is a new test
runner in 6.5, but I don't really think it will make a difference in
test execution speed.

Erno


larry wrote:

[larry]

Hi Erno,

Yeah, it is pretty bad. And the weird (and unfortunate) thing is that I witness the same behavior on both my work and home computers.

To answer your questions:

1) I'm using regular Ruby, not JRuby.

2) It makes no difference whether I run the tests from the IDE or the command line. (Which leads me to believe it isn't NetBeans - but I was hoping someone could shed some light on this issue in this forum.)

Thanks,
Larry

[Anthony Richardson]

I don't use ruby on windows (I don't use windows much) but I know there have been lot's of reports of ruby running very slowly on windows in the mailing lists etc..

I don't know what the problem is but not all windows users are affected. You might want to ask on the rails mailing list http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk to find out what can be done.

Cheers,

Anthony Richardson

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:46 PM, larry <address-removed ([email]address-removed[/email])> wrote:

[larry]

Thanks, Anthony. I'll give that a shot.

-- Larry