Is this the correct setup for spork + rspec + guard? It still seems like the specs are quite slow...

.rspec

--colour
--drb

0-output

Guard::RSpec is running, with RSpec 2!
Running all specs
Running tests with args ["--color", "--format", "progress", "--format", "Guard::RSpec::Formatter::NotificationRSpec", "--out", "/dev/null", "--require", "/Users/agib/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@fun/gems/guard-rspec-0.4.5/lib/guard/rspec/formatters/notification_rspec.rb", "spec"]...

Guardfile

# Spork
guard 'spork', cucumber: false, test_unit: false, wait: 60 do
  watch('config/application.rb')
  watch('config/environment.rb')
  watch(%r{^config/environments/.*\.rb$})
  watch(%r{^config/initializers/.*\.rb$})
  watch('spec/spec_helper.rb')
  watch(%r{^spec/support/.*\.rb$})
end

# RSpec
guard 'rspec' do

  watch(%r{^spec/.+_spec\.rb$})

  watch('spec/spec_helper.rb')       { 'spec' }
  watch(%r{^spec/support/(.+)\.rb$}) { 'spec' }

  watch(%r{^lib/(.+)\.rb$}) do |m|
    "spec/lib/#{m[1]}_spec.rb"
  end

  watch(%r{^app/(.+)\.rb$}) do |m|
    "spec/#{m[1]}_spec.rb"
  end

  watch(%r{^app/controllers/(.+)_(controller)\.rb$}) do |m|
    [
      "spec/routing/#{m[1]}_routing_spec.rb",
      "spec/#{m[2]}s/#{m[1]}_#{m[2]}_spec.rb",
      "spec/acceptance/#{m[1]}_spec.rb"
    ]
  end

  watch('app/controllers/application_controller.rb') { 'spec/controllers' }

  watch('config/routes.rb') { 'spec/routing_spec.rb' }
end

spec_helper.rb

# -*- encoding : utf-8 -*-
require 'spork'

Spork.prefork do
  ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= 'test'

  # https://gist.github.com/1054078
  require "rails/application"
  Spork.trap_method(Rails::Application, :reload_routes!)
  Spork.trap_method(Rails::Application::RoutesReloader, :reload!)

  require File.expand_path("../../config/environment", __FILE__)
  require 'rspec/rails'

  Dir[Rails.root.join("spec/support/**/*.rb")].each { |f| require f }

  RSpec.configure do |config|
    config.mock_with :rspec
    config.use_transactional_fixtures = true

    # Allow {focus: true} to be passed to an example or group to only have that
    # one run.
    # config.filter_run :focus => true
    # config.run_all_when_everything_filtered = true
  end

  SimpleCov.start if ENV["COVERAGE"]
end

Spork.each_run do
  FunApp::Application.reload_routes!
  FactoryGirl.reload
end

Guard + spork don't speed up your tests, they just speed up the startup time by not requiring a full reload of the environment. If your specs are slow, it may indicate you're not mocking correctly

@oreoshake I actually figured it out -- thinking sphinx was starting searchd and indexing before each run of my tests. It was crazy slow. Now that I've fixed it, it's super fast. :)

Nice! I would still argue that sphinx doesn't belong in your tests, but that depends on what kind of testing you're doing :)

Oh, of course! It was only supposed to start before certain tests but it was starting before every single one. :)

I know it's been two years, but if you still have that configuration file for Thinking Sphinx for RSpec and Spork, I would love to see it. Been trying to get the three of them configured right for a while now and there aren't many examples to be found.