Speeding up Django unit tests with SQLite, reuse-db and RAMDisk

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Recently, Harry wrote a post about how to speed up Django unit-testing by using a persistent in-memory SQLite database. While Harry uses the default Django testrunner and a Linux machine, I use pytest with pytest-django on a Mac. This changes a few things, and this post will show the differences. So it’s very specific to: Django pytest macOS Create and mount the RAMDisk /dev/shm is a Linux…

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