Why is RSpec so slow under Rails?

Question

Whenever I run rspec tests for my Rails application it takes forever and a day of overhead before it actually starts running tests. Why is rspec so slow? Is there a way to

Answer 1

The main reason is that require takes forever on windows, for some reason.

Tips for speedup: spork now works with windows, I believe.

You can try "faster_require" which caches locations:

http://github.com/rdp/faster_require

GL. -rp