The Whop chop: how we cut a Rails test suite and CI time in half—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

06-Sep-2025 407
Evil Martians cut Whop’s Rails test suite and CI time in half using profiling, factory optimizations, and parallelization. Learn how we speed up tests and boost reliability.Evil Martians sliced our client Whop’s entire suite runtime in half. This post walks through profiling to find hidden loggers, taming factory overhead, switching to smarter parallelization, and fixing the flaky tests that surfaced along the way. .
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