Running Rails as fast as possible on Cygwin?

rubyonrails-talk
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Helo, I'm running my RoR on Cygwin under WinXP. I was wondering if there is a way to make it work faster. There are many situations where it takes ages to wait for the result, e.g. running autotest - I have to wait loooong time until the results for tests for newly changed files pop up. Loading the rails console - takes loong, running tests manually takes ages as well. I'm buying Mac in 2 months but for now have to stick with XP

Cheers, michau

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Actually i'm not particularly attached to Cygwin, and if there are any other suggestions as of faster environment for RoR under WinXP (where I can run autotest), I'd love the advice.

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Ruby One-Click Installer for Windows. Last time I checked, it was noticeably slower than Ruby on Linux or Mac, but also noticeably faster than Cygwin.

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My e-book, Rails for Windows, covers in great detail how to make Rails work well on Windows.

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/railsonwindows/

I do recommend the non-cygwin method of running Rails on Windows.