How to performance test a Rails application without rebuilding the test database?

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Published on 2010-04-12T14:09:35Z Indexed on 2010/04/17 2:23 UTC
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I would like to do some performance testing of a Rails app.

I want to test the app with real world data, which is 100 MB in size.

The problem is, Rails' test environment always rebuilds the database from fixtures, which always overwrites the real world data.

So how should I do the performance test?

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