Parallel testing

[phuongnd08]

Spork is good. But running a single process on these multi-core machine these days is really a waste.
Any plan on adding parallel support to Spork?
I can imagine everytime Spork is forking, you can set a ENV variable inside the new process (like TEST_ENV_NUM, as parallel_tests do). Spork then can distribute tests to multiple process, each one with different database based on TEST_ENV_NUM (again, like parallet_tests do)
Parallet test has done good job on creating rake tasks to generate multiple test databases so this can be reused.

[radeno]

to speed up you should use this
https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests

[masterkain]

[RSpec] 'script/spec_server' or spork do not work in parallel

[radeno]

Hmm, pity. It would be really great to have.
Do you plan it for future?

[phuongnd08]

So I'm working on this https://github.com/phuongnd08/multi_spork which, if combined with the pull request above, can run cucumber features and rspec specs in parallel. Please give it a try and give me feed back if you like it (or not) :)

[robmathews]

There is this blog post that describes two ways to use parallel_test + spork: http://www.spacevatican.org/2011/7/30/multispork/