From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2005-04-10T10:45:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Rails Scripts Slow?

HBTaylor wrote:
> I have just started looking at Ruby and Ruby on Rails, and have run
> into a question. It may very well be something in an FAQ or something,
> but I haven't had luck framing the right query to find it. Thanks for
> any help out there.
> 
> I have been following Curt Hibbs' tutorial from ONLamp, and the Rails
> scripts seem to be VERY slow to execute. For example, just running
> "ruby script/generate" to get the usage information takes more than 30
> seconds. If I run "ruby -v script\generate", I see a whole slew of
> messages go by, and there are pauses after various messages (i.e.,
> "method redefined" and "ambiguous first argument"). I can include the
> verbose messages if needed, but don't want to take up space if it is
> something I should have found otherwise.
> 
> Some details:
> 
> OS : Windows XP SP2
> Processor: 2.8GHz Celeron
> Ruby version : 1.8.2
> Rails: Installed via gem (on April 8, 2005)
> 
> Running "ruby -v" returns a value almost instaneously.
> Running a trivial "Hello World" application executes almost
> instaneously.
> 
> I don't know if there is something weird with my configuration, or if
> there is some way to cache the information so it isn't reloaded each
> time, but it seems like those scripts should execute more quickly. Am I
> off base, or is that amount of time usual for those generate, etc.,
> scripts?
> 
> Performance of the Rails application itself seems to be okay (I'm
> running through WEBrick at the moment) but not blindingly fast.
> 
> Thanks again for any help.

I'm sorry I can't be much help, but its definitely something wrong with 
your system. Running a "ruby script\generate" for me takes only a few 
seconds on my WinXP SP2 that is a 1.5GHz AMD Athlon.

Curt