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I am trying to use Cucumber for a Rails project on Windows.
Unfortunately the time it takes to run a scenario is making BDD
impossible.
I understand this is largely due to the time taken by Rails to load up
under windows.
Does anyone have any ideas about how I can speed things up.
e.g Is it possible to call Cucumber inside a Rails console to avoid
the load up delay.
Cheers.
Windows is now supported by Spork! http://wiki.github.com/timcharper/spork/
Spork is a test server than can be invoked via DRb.
On POSIX systems Spork uses Kernel.fork.
On Windows forking is not an option so Spork creates a pool of preloaded processes which
avoids the huge Rails start up time.
At the moment it only works with win32/mingw Ruby because it depends on the win32-process gem.
A big thanks to the Spork Guys for doing such a great job and making cucumber BDD possible on Windows.
Please note that I have only tried Spork with