rspec users - Jan 2009 - specs run faster separately than together

So this is weird.

on my current project I''ve been working on speeding up specs, and I
just
found that

time rake spec => 4m 0s

whereas

time rake spec:controllers spec:models spec:helpers spec:lib => 2m 32s

(we don''t have any view specs)  any idea why this might be true?  I
compared
numbers of tests and got the same number both ways, just running everything
together seems to make it take almost twice as long...  Is anyone else
seeing this?

If it matters, we have 1183 tests spread more or less evenly across each of
controllers, models, helpers, and lib.

Jeremy
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On Jan 28, 2009, at 3:21 PM, Jeremy Lightsmith wrote:
> So this is weird.
>
> on my current project I''ve been working on speeding up specs, and
I
> just found that
>
> time rake spec => 4m 0s
>
> whereas
>
> time rake spec:controllers spec:models spec:helpers spec:lib => 2m 32s
Do those rake tasks run rake db:test:prepare, and other dependencies  
of rake spec?

How are you getting those numbers?

Scott

>
>
> (we don''t have any view specs)  any idea why this might be true? 
I
> compared numbers of tests and got the same number both ways, just  
> running everything together seems to make it take almost twice as  
> long...  Is anyone else seeing this?
>
> If it matters, we have 1183 tests spread more or less evenly across  
> each of controllers, models, helpers, and lib.
>
> Jeremy
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On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Scott Taylor <scott at
railsnewbie.com>wrote:
>
> On Jan 28, 2009, at 3:21 PM, Jeremy Lightsmith wrote:
>
>  So this is weird.
>>
>> on my current project I''ve been working on speeding up specs,
and I just
>> found that
>>
>> time rake spec => 4m 0s
>>
>> whereas
>>
>> time rake spec:controllers spec:models spec:helpers spec:lib => 2m
32s
>>
>
> Do those rake tasks run rake db:test:prepare, and other dependencies of
> rake spec?
>
> How are you getting those numbers?
>
> Scott
>
Each of those rake tasks are the default generated ones :

    Spec::Rake::SpecTask.new(sub => spec_prereq) do |t|
      t.spec_opts = [''--options'',
"\"#{RAILS_ROOT}/spec/spec.opts\""]
      t.spec_files = FileList["spec/#{sub}/**/*_spec.rb"]
    end

So, yes db:test:prepare is a prereq for each of those, which means in both
cases it gets run exactly once.

As for those numbers, I''m using the time command, I actually run
"time rake
spec" and after the spec it gives me something that looks like :

  real    4m16.242s
  user    3m54.037s
  sys     0m9.008s
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