I am running Rails 2.3.4 with Phusion (AKA mod_rails) and Apache2 and need some significant speedup in rendering. E.g. a common operation takes several seconds (View: 2973, DB: 74). Googling turned up several posts on 2-3x speeds w/ Erubis compared to ERB from several years ago. Installation of erubis 2.6.5 was straightforeward and worked with no changes to the views. But speedup was only 4% at best. I did not succeed in getting the preprocessing features to work at all (the [%= ... %] was not recognized). Does anyone have some recent experience with Erubis and is the speedup factor still similar? Or has its optimizations been encorporated into ERB? TIA, Jeffrey