Question

Is there a direct correlation on site speed with the number of namespaces / routes in the routes.rb file of a Rails Application?

I am handling a fairly large application with more than 30 disparate models/entities and most of these resources have their own routes.

Answer 1

I don’t have a citation† but DHH recently said that 37signals’ Highrise application has thousands of routes, so it is possible to scale the routes if you have a big enough box to run your application on.

_{† I think it may have been during his recent RailsConf keynote, when he was talking about the new router API in Rails 3.}