From: Carl Youngblood Date: 2004-12-02T08:21:20+09:00 Subject: Re: Rails with webrick slow as snails Tobias Luetke wrote: >under windows it seems to be very important to use rubyw.exe and not >ruby.exe for performance. Maybe thats it ? > Question: I've seen this mentioned a few times now. If this is the case, does the ruby installer for Windows associate .rb files with ruby.exe or rubyw.exe? It would seem silly to be saying it should be one way and then have all the default behaviors do it the other way. If there is no good use for ruby.exe, then we should simply rename rubyw.exe to ruby.exe.