From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2007-11-16T17:48:56+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby incredibly slow (update 2)

From: Ron Jeffries [mailto:ronjeffries@acm.org] 
# it contains:
# 
#   -rubygems
# 
# with the dash. 

remove it.
then go to the folder where ruby.exe resides.

then try creating and running a simple program like,

# sample.rb
5.times {puts "hello, world"}

.\ruby sample.rb

let us narrow it down to pure ruby first by avoiding gem loading and long path traversals...  

kind regards -botp