Help w/ Sluggish "rake cucumber"

Question

I've been trying to debug some super slow performance in running my cucumber features. I've run various calls through ruby-prof and think I see the bottlenecks (not too familiar with using ruby-prof) but do not know the cause or more important the solution. I've include below the output from running rake cucumber.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1788885/rake_cucumber.txt

Does anyone have any idea why this is happening or how I could go about debugging it further?

Thanks, Eric

Answer 1

I'm not sure of what might be making cucumber run slowly for you. As a possible work around, you could considering using spork. On my Windows 7 netbook, running just one cucumber test went from around 7 minutes to 10 seconds with spork.

Answer 2

So, I happen to have been playing around with this all morning. It turns out that if you do:

rake cucumber

that does indeed take forever to run. (About 20 secs on my laptop.) But, apparently:

cucumber

runs just fine w/out the overhead of Rake and it runs in about 8 secs.