# Cygwin slow problem

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cygwin-slow-problem/92825>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 24, 2007, 5:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cygwin-slow-problem/92825 "2007-04-24T17:59:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![chrisfinne](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@chrisfinne](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chrisfinne)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 5:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cygwin-slow-problem/92825/1 "2007-04-24T17:59:37Z")

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Hi,  
Being stuck in Windows at work, I installed rails on cygwin.  
However, when I type something like:  
script/generate  
or  
script/generate model

the pc just churns and whirrs away and after about 2 minutes displays  
the text.  
Obviously this is unusable. Can anybody help explain this or give me  
pointers as to what to do next??

Thanks,  
Chris.

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**Author:** ![chrisfinne](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@chrisfinne](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chrisfinne)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 1:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cygwin-slow-problem/92825/2 "2007-04-25T01:29:18Z")

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Chris:

While it’s nice to have the unix-y feel that Cygwin provides, I find it  
much easier to use the One-Click Ruby installer. at  
[http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller/) to get an environment  
running.  
You can do basic Rails with cygwin, but an awful lot of gems don’t seem  
to  
work right (or install right) from my experience.

Sorry that didn’t directly answer your question though.

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**Author:** ![chrisfinne](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@chrisfinne](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chrisfinne)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 11:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cygwin-slow-problem/92825/3 "2007-04-25T11:14:41Z")

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Brian,  
I agree the one-click is great!  
However, coming from a Windows background, I would love to get some  
experience with Unix tools - it would help me use my hosting server  
better (which is linux) and I’d get to explore some of the free  
scientific stuff such as texmacs.

My ruby 1.8.5 on cygwin seems to work fine but when I use rails (v  
1.2.3), the damn thing just freezes up for ages until it finally works!  
I’m sure other people have better experience than this - so I’m  
wondering whether there’s something I can do?

Thanks,  
Chris

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**Author:** ![chrisfinne](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@chrisfinne](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chrisfinne)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 11:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cygwin-slow-problem/92825/4 "2007-04-25T11:21:30Z")

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I did a mix between the two (a clean mix, at least I hope)

I’ve installed a windows .exe ruby interpreter, then installed cygwin  
only for bash and utilities.

The two works great together and at full speed, while the cygwin ruby  
version was very very slow when I tried it…

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**Author:** ![chrisfinne](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@chrisfinne](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chrisfinne)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 11:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cygwin-slow-problem/92825/5 "2007-04-25T11:41:43Z")

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nuno wrote:

> I did a mix between the two (a clean mix, at least I hope)
> 
> I’ve installed a windows .exe ruby interpreter, then installed cygwin  
> only for bash and utilities.
> 
> The two works great together and at full speed, while the cygwin ruby  
> version was very very slow when I tried it…

Nuno, that sounds like what I need - are you able to run ruby and rails  
from the cygwin console? Does that require a symbolic link or something?