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Use: perl program.pl or perl -e 'program text'

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Chrome - a new speed king

OK, so it seems that Chrome even under VirtualBox is fast as hell

Just for comparison some SunSpider benchmarks:

• Chrome on Windows XP virtualized using VirtualBox 1.6 on MacOS X Leopard
• Firefox 3 on MacOS X Leopard

When you compare those two you will notice that Chrome is more than twice as fast as Firefox.

Good job Google!

When autotest fails

Our application uses namespaces quite extensively. While using RSpec this has a nasty side effect - it breaks autotest triggering rspec namespaced controllers bug

Due to false positives autotest became unusable. Too bad as I miss it's lightning-fast feedback. The only thing that remains is to run the tests myself.

While I do that before each commit, running them in separation takes quite some time - loading the whole environment takes precious seconds. This hurts especially when run from TextMate

RSpec provides a solution for this long test startup issue. You can run spec_server and tell TextMate to use it when running tests.

Open your console and from the project's directory start:

./script/spec_server

Now we have to tell TextMate to use this server when running RSpec examples. Open TextMate preferences and in Advanced tab, Shell Variables, add new variable called TM_RSPEC_OPTS with a value -X

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This should significantly speed up running tests