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Testing and Profiling

This is a short document to help out anyone who wants to contribute to development of Sonic Pi. To do that you should try to use (and add to) the test suites.

Running the tests

Sonic Pi doesn't have a database, so the tests are quite a lot simpler than your average web app.

$ cd app/server/sonicpi/test
$ rake test

This should run all the tests for you.

If you have an error like this:

Warning: you should require 'minitest/autorun' instead.
Warning: or add 'gem "minitest"' before 'require "minitest/autorun"'

You may find you need to run the following.

$ gem install test-unit

Profiling

Sonic Pi is a truly multi-threaded system with communications via OSC (open sound control) being sent between the Qt GUI, the Ruby server and the scsynth synthesis server. As a result, profiling has proved to be tricky.

Profiling the Ruby server

The following is a suggestion for how one might go about profiling the Ruby elements of Sonic Pi. This assumes you are using Ruby 2.1 or greater.

  1. gem install ruby-prof
  2. (optional) Clone this repo, run build.sh followed by ./tinyosc 4557 This is just to provide a receiver for the OSC message that are sent to the GUI on port 4557. If you don't do this you'll see some error messages to do with connections.
  3. gem install sonic-pi-cli - for version 2.7 dev and above you may need to install from this repo: https://github.com/xavriley/sonic-pi-cli
  4. Run this command from the root dir of Sonic Pi
$ ruby-prof -p multi ./app/server/bin/sonic-pi-server.rb
  1. Run this command (again from the root dir) to send some code to Sonic Pi
$ cat etc/examples/wizard/tilburg.rb | sonic_pi
  1. After letting it run for a while, run sonic_pi stop in a fresh terminal and then Ctrl+C the sonic-pi-server.rb process. This should create several files in the root folder containing profiling information.

Profiling the Qt GUI

TODO

Profiling scsynth

TODO