#412 Fast Rails Commands

Apr 04, 2013 | 8 minutes | Tools

Rails commands, such as generators, migrations, and tests, have a tendency to be slow because they need to load the Rails app each time. Here I show three tools to make this faster: Zeus, Spring, and Commands.

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          terminal
        
gem install zeus
zeus start
zeus g model comment content
zeus rake db:migrate
zeus rake test
zeus test test/functional
time bundle exec rake db:migrate
time zeus rake db:migrate
echo .zeus.sock >> .gitignore
gem install spring
spring
spring rails g model user name
spring rake db:migrate
spring testunit test/functional
spring stop
rails console
rails console test

          rails console
        
generate "model author name"
rake "db:migrate"
test "functional"
ActiveRecord::Base.logger = nil

          Gemfile
        
gem 'commands', group: [:development, :test]