http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994-ruby-on-rails/tickets/2070-gzip-deflate-support-for-activeresource At the moment ActiveResource does not support gzip/deflate. As it does use XML as a transfer medium, this becomes highly inefficient with large datasets. Gzip is one of the oldest remedies for this, and all major application servers for rails support it, but activeresource doesn''t. To enable: have ZLib installed and add this to your ActiveResource base class: base.headers[''Accept-Encoding''] = ''deflate'' --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---