Roger Pack wrote: > Question. Currently with rails startup time in linux for me is like 6s, > in windows like...20s, but regardless, anybody know just why this is > taking so long (I'm pretty sure it's cpu bound--curious if anyone's > investigated this). > Anyone know any tricks to load things quicker? You could try this, which I knocked together last week: http://github.com/candlerb/snailgun It's for Linux only. Basically, it starts a Ruby interpreter and loads in all the libraries demanded by your application (gems and all, if they're declared in config/environment.rb). Then each time you want a new Rails process, you can just fork the preloaded one, using a slightly different command to normal: frake # run tests fautotest # background testing fconsole # interactive console fruby script/server # web server I find it speeds things up hugely on my old Thinkpad X30 laptop. Regards, Brian. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.