I'm the one who went on record in "Deploying Rails Applications". Rails isn't slow on Windows - Ruby is. It was horribly slow almost four years ago when I started, and it's slow now, although it's faster because our CPUs have gotten faster. I spent a good majority of my Rails career working on the Windows platform but have since switched to Mac for most things. When I go back to the Windows environment, it's quite noticeable.
A long time ago, it was explained to me that the compiler used to build Ruby for Windows has some limitations. I'm being intentionally vague here because I can't remember who said it so I can't really back that up, I understand that the maintainers of the One Click Ruby Installer are making some nice improvements in performance in some of the test releases out there, so there's hope. But to the OP, it's definitely a Ruby on Windows thing, and it's a little sad because it makes converting people much more difficult, and where it really hurts is in testing. People stop running rake test:units or rake spec because it's terribly slow. The situation gets better all the time though, as talented Rubyists get involved and improve the performance for the Windows users. I personally find Mac the best environment to work on, but Ubuntu is fabulous as well. Sadly enough, even VMWare with an Ubuntu insallation running on top of Windows runs Ruby faster than Windows itself. VMWare + smb mounting can be an interesting way to develop Rails if you can't move off of Windows :) (Way more work than it should be though.) On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Ar Chron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > would still be interested whether this a windows(slow I/O?) or ruby/ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] problem? > > I'd vote that Windows is the slow component. I was dual booting XP Pro > and Ubuntu 7.10 for a while, and just sourcing a big database in MySQL > was 25 minutes in Windows, 7 minutes in Ubuntu on the same physical > hardware. > > Ruby on windows still has to play by the Windows rules, so it may in > fact be slower than ruby on *nix/Mac, but not due to its own faults. > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
