mrd

Stands for MySQL RAM Disk. Pronounced like the French swear word.

Spawns a temporary MySQL instance off a RAM disk. Useful to speed up large test suites, your machine usable while running them, and preserve your SSD's life!

Only works under Mac OS X.

Installation

$ gem install mrd

Usage

$ mrd
==>
Created Ramdisk at /dev/disk4
Formatted Ramdisk at /dev/disk4
Mounted Ramdisk at /Volumes/MySQLRAMDisk
Starting MySQL server
MySQL is now running.
Configure you client to use the root user, no password, and the socket at '/Volumes/MySQLRAMDisk/mysql.sock'.
Just close this terminal or press ^C when you no longer need it.

Then, if using Rails, point your database.yml to the temporary SQL server:

test:
  ...
  socket: /Volumes/MySQLRAMDisk/mysql.sock

Options

$ mrd -h
Usage:  [options]
    -v, --verbose                    Run verbosely
    -s, --size SIZE                  Size of RAM disk in MB (default 1024)
    -p, --port PORT                  Run MySQL listening on specified port
    -l, --log                        Create mysql.log

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request