Hello Sarah, ST> Hi David, I'm running PIII/800MHz laptop. Perhaps I did exagerate a bit, ST> but not much. It takes at least 3 minutes for the sample page to come up ST> and it will take just as long to reload/refresh the same page. Plus, ST> starting up the "ruby dispatch.servlet -a" takes at least 1 minutes. ST> I will try what you suggested by updating it to the latest beta. Do you have the Windows SP2 firewall enabled ? I also got a 20 sec delay for the first connect on my 2,8Ghz PIV machine (VMWare sandbox) before i turned the firewall off. 3 minutes is a clear sign that the problem is your envrionment and not inside ruby/rails. -- Best regards, emailto: scholz at scriptolutions dot com Lothar Scholz http://www.ruby-ide.com CTO Scriptolutions Ruby, PHP, Python IDE 's