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Asked: May 31, 20262026-05-31T13:44:20+00:00 2026-05-31T13:44:20+00:00

Why is my Rails development environment so terribly slow? I am seeing 2-3 seconds

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Why is my Rails development environment so terribly slow? I am seeing 2-3 seconds in the log for a call, the actually time is about 10 seconds for a controller action. A good chunk of time seems to be spent on the asset pipeline.

Gems like rails-dev-tweaks do not really help so far.

  • My Setup:
  • OS X fully updated
  • Ruby 1.9.3-p0 via rvm
  • Rails 3.2.1
  • MySQL installed via homebrew
  • Server POW or webrick

log output:

Started GET "/" for 127.0.0.1 at 2012-02-10 13:14:34 +0000
Processing by HomeController#index as HTML
  User Load (0.3ms)  SELECT `users`.* FROM `users` WHERE `users`.`id` = 1 LIMIT 1
  User Load (0.7ms)  SELECT `users`.* FROM `users` 
  Account Load (0.3ms)  SELECT `accounts`.* FROM `accounts` WHERE `accounts`.`id` = 1 LIMIT 1
  Rendered home/index.html.erb within layouts/application (40.2ms)
  Rendered shared/_navigation.html.erb (0.7ms)
Completed 200 OK in 2084ms (Views: 44.6ms | ActiveRecord: 9.6ms)
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    2026-05-31T13:44:21+00:00Added an answer on May 31, 2026 at 1:44 pm

    OK, I figured out what made it slow. It was the Rails Footnotes gem that came with the app template from: http://github.com/RailsApps/rails3-devise-rspec-cucumber

    I have also created an issue on github:
    https://github.com/RailsApps/rails3-devise-rspec-cucumber/issues/22

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