Knapsack Pro

Speed up Spinach tests run your 1 hour Ruby test suite in 2 minutes
with the optimal parallelisation on Semaphore CI

Run Spinach tests in parallel on Semaphore CI in the optimal way and avoid bottleneck parallel jobs.

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Without Knapsack Pro

Uneven split

CI Node 0
9 minutes
CI Node 1
20 minutes
CI Node 2
4 minutes
CI Node 3
7 minutes

With Knapsack Pro

Optimal split

CI Node 0
10 minutes
CI Node 1
10 minutes
CI Node 2
10 minutes
CI Node 3
10 minutes

How it works

Knapsack Pro in Queue Mode splits tests in a dynamic way across parallel Semaphore CI nodes to ensure each Semaphore CI node finishes work at a similar time. Thanks to that, your CI build time is as fast as possible. It works with many supported CI servers.

Diagram that shows files distributed to 3 parallel CI nodes

Running Rails tests in parallel on Semaphore CI 2.0 with dynamic test files split

Semaphore CI parallelism integration for Spinach

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