From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2009-10-21T09:57:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Loading program that uses gems on network share is incredibly slow

nikolai.weibull@gmail.com wrote:
> Loading program that uses gems on network share is incredibly slow.
> Ruby�s need, due to Rubygems, to search a long list of directories for
> a file to load due to a require can become very tedious on, for
> example, an SMB share.

One option is to avoid using rubygems on the client systems. The 
crown[1] tool I developed collects gem files (including dependencies) in 
a set of lib and bin dirs. Just add those dirs (still on the file share) 
to the client-side RUBYLIB and PATH env vars. Whenever you gem update, 
you would need to recreate the "crown", as well, but no need to touch 
the clients. This is experimental, of course, so YMMV, especially if 
there is a gem that does something really non-standard to access its 
libs. I've been using it in production, but have tested it only on the 
gems I use (web stack with sinatra, thin, sequel).

[1] http://github.com/vjoel/crown

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