reduce rails boot time by 30-40% — whalesalad

Cool post :) "Reduce Rails Boot Time by 30-40%" #ruby #rubyonrails

I've been a Python + Django developer since the dawn of time. Okay not really, but for the last 5 or so years. One of the things I frequently referred to when talking about Rails with other developers was the fact that booting the development environment took forever . Particularly on larger projects or where you're a noob and can't forsee the consequences of relying on tons of external dependencies. Well... I've gone to the dark-side. I'm a Rails developer now. I'll list my reasons why another time, but it's safe to say that I am using it for all of my new projects -- this site included . Recently some effort has been put into speeding up the rails development environment. It's not nearly as bad as it used to be. That being said, as your project grows and you rely on more gems and modifications to the components initialized on Rails boot, it starts to slow down. Until rec...

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