Hello, On every page access I see (with strace) that dispatch.fcgi does 39 unsuccesful filesystem acesses before finding friends_controller.rb. Search path is: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-0.8.0/bin /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-0.8.0/lib /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.4.9/bin /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.4.9/lib /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-0.3.0/lib/action_mailer/vendor/ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-0.3.0/bin /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-0.3.0/lib /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-0.9.0/lib/action_view/vendor /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-0.9.0/lib /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-0.9.0/bin /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-0.9.0/lib /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.0.0/lib /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.0.0/bin /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.0.0/lib /var/www/rails/public/../config/environments/../../vendor /var/www/rails/public/../config/environments/../../lib /var/www/rails/public/../config/environments/../../config /var/www/rails/public/../config/environments/../../app/helpers /var/www/rails/public/../config/environments/../../app/controllers /var/www/rails/public/../config/environments/../../app/models /usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8 /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8 /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i686-linux-gnu /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby /usr/lib/ruby/1.8 /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux-gnu . /usr/prod/ruby /para/ruby And the same happens for the next request. This surprises me somewhat, because Dispatcher.dispatch does: require "#{Inflector.underscore(controller_name)}_controller" I see that ''friends_controller.rb'' is in the Array $". Is the repeated lookup some fcgi ''feature'' I have overlooked ? No other requires (helpers, views and so on) seem to occur. Any suggestions? Cheers, Han Holl