For development speed, the best investment is knowledge. I would bet a rails guru on an iPhone could out develop a person worried about ram on a Mac pro.
If you are looking for speed, turn off twitter, irc, facebook, and gmail. I find those are the biggest users of ram. Chris On Sep 9, 4:40 am, Greg Willits <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > Jet Thompson wrote: > > I was curious to what extent this would speed up developing a Ruby on > > Rails app > > So is there a significant difference in the speed of, for example a > > 2.4Ghz duo core, versus a 2.4 Ghz i5? > > For rails development? Nah, you won't see much of a difference in the > CPUs unless your app do a lot of lengthy pure ruby work with delayed > jobs or something. > > Best invesement is in RAM. Lots 'o' RAM so you can keep all your dev > tools and test browsers open at the same time. > > -- gw > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
