From: Thomas Fini Hansen <beast@...>
Date: 2004-08-20T03:58:40+09:00
Subject: Re: [RAILS] way too slow...

On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 02:21:14AM +0900, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:
> >I'm not necessarily looking for the best benchmarks, but I would 
> >expect better than 1 req/sec.
> 
> Are you running in CGI mode? If so, 1 req/sec is similar to what I'm 
> getting. Rails does a ton of fancy, smancy stuff at startup to get all 
> the magic poofing.
> 
> In a production environment, though, this initialization cost is never 
> seen by the users as it only happens once when a new Apache or FCGI 
> process starts up.
> 
> So I wouldn't get my hopes up for that to improve. I find 1 req/sec 
> perfectly acceptable for developing on my Powerbook offline. I 
> developed the new release of Basecamp like that.
> 
> But even if it is a problem for you, it's pretty easy to switch between 
> FCGI and CGI. So just use CGI when you're changing stuff all the time 
> (like working on a single page), then use FCGI (or mod_ruby) when you 
> need to test a bunch of pages.

Random thought: auto-reload.rb from the mod_ruby distribution. Does
that work with Rails, or does the two not like each other?

I should get some Rails up and running soon..

-- 
Thomas
beast@system-tnt.dk