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Setup parallel tests on Semaphore CI
Hi, today I want speak about slow specs. It's very an unpleasant situation when specs run very slowly and spend many time for build (15-20 or more minutes). One way to remedy this situation it's a split specs into groups and running on multiple CPU cores. For this we can use gem parallel_tests.
It's very useful gem and very easy to setup for local machine. But what if we want setup parallel specs on our CI? For example, I use Semaphore CI for my projects, it's a very good tool. For setup parallel specs we should to do a few things .
Step #1. We should add rake task for prepare database config.
This task will be update database config for Semaphore CI, because by Semaphore CI ignore your config for database name and use hashes for database name.
Step #2. Add this line for drop all databases previously created
bundle exec rake semaphore:prepare_db_config
Step #3. Create databases
bundle exec rake parallel:drop
Step #4. And load schema for all created databases
bundle exec rake parallel:load_schema
Step #5. It's finish step, run specs
By default on rails we run specs by rspec - RAILS_ENV=test bundle exec rspec
but for parallel_tests
we must use other command
RAILS_ENV=test bundle exec rake parallel:spec
By default
parallel_tests
use 8 threads and 8 databases in you want change number of process you should add [n]
to end of each command, where
n
- number of process
For example you want use only 5 process, config will be like this: