# Rspec load time is zero?!

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**Created:** [December 22, 2025, 12:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rspec-load-time-is-zero/391912 "2025-12-22T12:57:20Z")\
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I think that might be a side-effect of using [parallel\_tests](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests). The process which is writing the output doesn’t actually load any tests itself. Instead, it spins up multiple worker processes to run the tests.

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