From: Tom Copeland Date: 2007-11-15T01:47:49+09:00 Subject: Re: rails incredibly slow (update) > The system runs quite well EXCEPT for rails, which takes upwards of 30 > seconds to do "rails -h". Nothing makes me think I have a general > performance problem. I may have missed this in an earlier post, but what does running "ruby -v" from the command line do? Does it take 30 seconds or does it return the Ruby version immediately? Yours, Tom