15 May 2011
Why is Rails startup so slow?
For me, as for a whole lot of other people, Rails take about 30 seconds to start-up, regardless of whether it is starting the server, running the tests or firing up the console. For a professional Rails developer this means starring at a black screen and waiting impatiently many times a day and wasting a lot of time. People have been complaining about this on the web, but the answers people give to this seem to be evasive and do not really hit the issue. Turns out there is a really simple reason why the start-up is so slow and the only question remains why this wasn’t fixed a long time ago.
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