Pieter Hugo wrote in post #1036832: > Dont know about IIS but running rails on Windows is dog slow. I develop > on a Windows box and deploy on Linux and the speed difference is marked. > Have heard the same from others. > > Pieter Hugo
I got a blank Rails project up and running and I noticed it takes at least 30-60 secs to load up the hello page on an idle server, sometimes much longer and this delay is highly variable. This is just crazy. From my research via Google it does not appear to be just an IIS problem either, although its apparently much worse on IIS. I have also discovered that there are complaints about ruby being slower by orders of magnitude compared to other scripting languages, rails performance being generally poor and an apparent self-defeating reluctance by the developpers to support rails properly on the worlds most popular commercial platform. This is a great shame, since the potential for development appears to be huge if the hype is to be believed but the above problems appear to be an obstacle to takeup. I still need to understand terms such as rack, passenger, mongrel, webrick etc and where they fit in but I'm already thinking of abandoning rails. However, before I do that, I am going to test it for comparison on Apache for Windows. -- Posted via http://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-talk@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.
