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Running Rails in the Background

Explore techniques to run your Rails application in the background using the Spring gem. Learn to minimize startup delays during testing to improve efficiency and maintain flow in test-driven development. This lesson helps you implement Spring for faster, smoother Rails test execution.

One difference between TDD in a Rails context and TDD in SUnit’s original Smalltalk environment is that testing a Rails program typically requires that Ruby be started from the command line and that the Rails environment is loaded. Starting from the command line can take quite a bit of time ...