Step 0: Benchmark!

(Disclaimer: the code that follows is in no way a prescription on how to write good benchmarking code but was simply written in a minute :-)

Note to self:

If you're using acts_as_solr and not disabling it on your tests, or want to enable or disable it selectively, try my fork of mattmatt-acts_as_solr on http://github.com/cyx/acts_as_solr.

In a nutshell, you put this in your test_helper: