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@@ -462,6 +462,89 @@ Rails options:
-c, --[no-]color Enable color in the output
```
+Parallel Testing
+----------------
+
+Parallel testing allows you to parallelize your test suite. While forking processes is the
+default method, threading is supported as well. Running tests in parallel reduces the time it
+takes your entire test suite to run.
+
+### Parallel testing with processes
+
+The default parallelization method is to fork processes using Ruby's DRb system. The processes
+are forked based on the number of workers provided. The default is 2, but can be changed by the
+number passed to the parallelize method. Active Record automatically handles creating and
+migrating a new database for each worker to use.
+
+To enable parallelization add the following to your `test_helper.rb`:
+
+```
+class ActiveSupport::TestCase
+ parallelize(workers: 2)
+end
+```
+
+The number of workers passed is the number of times the process will be forked. You may want to
+parallelize your local test suite differently from your CI, so an environment variable is provided
+to be able to easily change the number of workers a test run should use:
+
+```
+PARALLEL_WORKERS=15 bin/rails test
+```
+
+When parallelizing tests, Active Record automatically handles creating and migrating a database for each
+process. The databases will be suffixed with the number corresponding to the worker. For example, if you
+have 2 workers the tests will create `test-database-0` and `test-database-1` respectively.
+
+If the number of workers passed is 1 or fewer the processes will not be forked and the tests will not
+be parallelized and the tests will use the original `test-database` database.
+
+Two hooks are provided, one runs when the process is forked, and one runs before the processes are closed.
+These can be useful if your app uses multiple databases or perform other tasks that depend on the number of
+workers.
+
+The `parallelize_setup` method is called right after the processes are forked. The `parallelize_teardown` metod
+is called right before the processes are closed.
+
+```
+class ActiveSupport::TestCase
+ parallelize_setup do |worker|
+ # setup databases
+ end
+
+ parallelize_teardown do |worker|
+ # cleanup database
+ end
+
+ parallelize(workers: 2)
+end
+```
+
+These methods are not needed or available when using parallel testing with threads.
+
+### Parallel testing with threads
+
+If you prefer using threads or are using JRuby, a threaded parallelization option is provided. The threaded
+parallelizer is backed by Minitest's `Parallel::Executor`.
+
+To change the parallelization method to use threads over forks put the following in your `test_helper.rb`
+
+```
+class ActiveSupport::TestCase
+ parallelize(workers: 2, with: :threads)
+end
+```
+
+Rails applications generated from JRuby will automatically include the `with: :threads` option.
+
+The number of workers passed to `parallelize` determines the number of threads the tests will use. You may
+want to parallelize your local test suite differently from your CI, so an environment variable is provided
+to be able to easily change the number of workers a test run should use:
+
+```
+PARALLEL_WORKERS=15 bin/rails test
+```
+
The Test Database
-----------------
@@ -607,7 +690,7 @@ System Testing
--------------
System tests allow you to test user interactions with your application, running tests
-in either a real or a headless browser. System tests uses Capybara under the hood.
+in either a real or a headless browser. System tests use Capybara under the hood.
For creating Rails system tests, you use the `test/system` directory in your
application. Rails provides a generator to create a system test skeleton for you.
@@ -1401,7 +1484,7 @@ located under the `test/helpers` directory.
Given we have the following helper:
```ruby
-module UserHelper
+module UsersHelper
def link_to_user(user)
link_to "#{user.first_name} #{user.last_name}", user
end
@@ -1411,7 +1494,7 @@ end
We can test the output of this method like this:
```ruby
-class UserHelperTest < ActionView::TestCase
+class UsersHelperTest < ActionView::TestCase
test "should return the user's full name" do
user = users(:david)
@@ -1517,7 +1600,7 @@ Functional testing for mailers involves more than just checking that the email b
```ruby
require 'test_helper'
-class UserControllerTest < ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest
+class UsersControllerTest < ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest
test "invite friend" do
assert_difference 'ActionMailer::Base.deliveries.size', +1 do
post invite_friend_url, params: { email: 'friend@example.com' }