ActiveRecord load time

Rails
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I’m using ActiveRecord outside of Rails. The time for a script to
execute “require ‘active_record’” is about 2.5 seconds on my 666 MHz
machine. Is there any way to speed it up (aside from a faster
processor)? Maybe some way to pre-load ActiveRecord? The script is
invoked by a user action, so it needs to start quickly.

Thanks,
Earle

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Get a faster machine.

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On 7/17/07, Earle C. [email protected] wrote:

I’m using ActiveRecord outside of Rails. The time for a script to
execute “require ‘active_record’” is about 2.5 seconds on my 666 MHz
machine. Is there any way to speed it up (aside from a faster
processor)? Maybe some way to pre-load ActiveRecord? The script is
invoked by a user action, so it needs to start quickly.

You can run it as a separate DRB process, and the user action just
connects with DRB and invokes the action. Here’s a simple Daemon
module so you can manage pids and all that:
http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2265

This is how rails (using mongrel/http or fcgi instead of drb of
course) pre-loads the framework.

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