I would like to performance testing a Rails app.
The real world data is 100 MB in size.
But Rails always rebuilds the test database, which overwrites the real world data.
So how to the performance testing?
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I would like to performance testing a Rails app.
The real world data is 100 MB in size.
But Rails always rebuilds the test database, which overwrites the real world data.
So how to the performance testing?
I would create a new environment called “performance”. You need this to replicate the production settings of your app (class caching, templates etc) and then load the database. In the past I have created a DB specifically for performance testing, created a rake task that executes the necessary migrations/loading and then called the rails performance script.
You can also turn the fixture behaviour off in your tests – depends on which test framework you are using.
I also found this useful post on Running Rails performance tests on real data that has some details on this approach.