Rails3 development mode performance issues

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi

I'm developing an app on Rails3. Development mode performance seems to be pretty poor, especially on pages involving AJAX and several queries. On an AJAX search page, result requests take anything from 500-600ms to return from the local machine. According to the development log, the ActiveRecord portion of the requests is taking < 30ms, so I'm pretty sure it's not inefficient queries.

I'm running Apache/Passenger/Postgresql on the same machine, which is a 4ghz Core2Duo with plenty of RAM. In production mode on the same database, these requests take 20-25ms. Obviously it's like comparing oranges and apples, but is there any way to optimize development mode somehow, without enabling class caching or anything overboard like that which would require regular restarts?

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Rails is reloading all of your app's code for each request, that takes time. Stuff like http://github.com/thedarkone/rails-dev-boost does exist, don't know if they work on rails 3.

Fred