Rails - Jun 2006 - trying to pick up a little speed...

I have a ''find'' screen where I am populating some select lists
in the
controller (perhaps some of this should be moved to the model).

I am still using this in development mode so I am not getting benefit of
locked models and caching anyway but in...

  def find
    @personnel = Personnel.find(:all)
    @main_office = Facility.new(:name => "Main Office")
    @float = Facility.new(:name => "Floater")
    @facility = Facility.find(:all)
    @facility = @facility << @main_office
    @facility = @facility << @float
    @bh_category = Valuelist.find(:all,
      :conditions => ["list_name = ''BH
Category''"],
      :order => ''list_value'')
    @position = Valuelist.find(:all,
      :conditions => ["list_name = ''Position''"],
      :order => ''list_value'')
    # more select lists populated but snipped for clarity #
  end

As you can see, I am setting @facility to the contents of my facility
model and then adding @float ("Floater") and @main_office ("Main
Office") to the @facility hash. This is very slow at least in
development mode. Is there a better way that would speed it up?

Craig