I found the problem, although I'm still baffled as to why it was occurring at all.
My session (using active_record_store) was storing the User object of the logged in user. Any page that access that object experienced the 3 second delay. Any page that didn't access that object loaded almost instantly. I re-jiggered the application to just store the user id and User.find the object whenever it was needed. Voila — no more delays. Problem solved but I don't know why it was a problem. -- 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.

