I ended up solving the ruby-prof conflict. The problem was that I had included the ruby-prof gem in my Gemfile. After removing it and doing a `bundle install` everything worked.
I will start a new thread if the profiling results lead to performance opportunities in rspec boot time. _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users