Rails Development and Solid State Drive (SSD)

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi - I'm wondering if using a SSD-based Mac has noticeable performance gain in the Rails or any general development.

I'm especially curious to know the speed of testing including autotest and autospec.

Anybody using 13/15inch MacBook Pro with SSD for the development?

-Jon

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Hi - I'm wondering if using a SSD-based Mac has noticeable performance gain in the Rails or any general development.

I'm especially curious to know the speed of testing including autotest and autospec.

Anybody using 13/15inch MacBook Pro with SSD for the development?

I've got a 17in with an ssd (a rebranded samsung 256gb ssd). tests didn't really run any faster. A lot of large database queries do run a lot faster though and there's a hard to quantify general nippiness about things in general.

Fred