Re: [ANN] RailsRestarter v 0.0.1 version "slow monkey"

Frederick Cheung
Mon, 19 May 2008 10:33:02 -0000

On 16 May 2008, at 00:50, Roger Pack wrote:

>
> Don''t know if something like this exists already, but thought
I''d
> advertise my script :)
>
Have you seen
http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/dev_mode_performance_fixes/README
  ?
Not used it myself, but it seems to try and address the same sort of
problem that you are.

Fred
> Introduction
>
> Rails is slow. Rails in development mode on old computers is WAY slow.
> There is hope, however. Just run it in production mode [fast!] and
> have
> it restart whenever a file change occurs. Slow to restart, perhaps,
> but
> far faster than reloading all files per request, which is development
> mode.  This allowed me to develop in rails on my 1 GHz PPC [like 6
> years
> old] and still consider it survivable.
>
> How to get/run:
>
> code:
> http://code.google.com/p/ruby-roger-useful-functions/source/checkout
> buried in here is rails/rails_useful.rb, which contains a function
>
> def fire_up_file_modification_checker_thread reload_dirs >
[''app/controllers'', ''app/schools'',
''app/models''], death_dirs >
[''app/helpers'', ''config'',
> ''app/controllers/shared_search_code_module.rb'']
>
> so put that file in your lib dir, include it in your environment.rb,
> and, if it''s like mine, add something like this to environment.rb
>
> require ''lib/rails_useful.rb''
> require ''socket''
> fire_up_file_modification_checker_thread() if Socket.gethostname =~
> /Roger/ # if you''re on a dev machine
> and watch the goodness go.  And then stop.  And restart.
>
>
> http://code.google.com/p/ruby-roger-useful-functions/wiki/RailsRestarter
>
> -R
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
> >


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