# Development speed boosters **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 9, 2009, 3:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/development-speed-boosters/162388 "2009-03-09T15:00:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rsm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@rsm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rsm)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 3:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/development-speed-boosters/162388/1 "2009-03-09T15:00:43Z")
anyone know of any good development speed booster plugins or gems? the larger my app becomes, the slower development time becomes… getting painfully slow… ---
**Author:** ![rsm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@rsm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rsm)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 4:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/development-speed-boosters/162388/2 "2009-03-09T16:09:12Z")
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Roger M. \< removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid\> wrote: > ## anyone know of any good development speed booster plugins or gems? the larger my app becomes, the slower development time becomes… getting painfully slow… Where in the development cycle do you seem to go the slowest? Creating tests? Writing code against your tests? Unit testing? Testing controllers? Hitting the database? Where do you experience a bottleneck, or necks? Cheers– Charles ---
**Author:** ![rsm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@rsm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rsm)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 6:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/development-speed-boosters/162388/3 "2009-03-09T18:13:24Z")
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Roger M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > anyone know of any good development speed booster plugins or gems? the > larger my app becomes, the slower development time becomes… getting > painfully slow… You can always use mod\_rails in development mode on Apache: > **[Passenger - Enterprise grade web app server for Ruby, Node.js, Python](https://www.phusionpassenger.com/)** > > Passenger is a rock-solid, feature-rich web app server that integrates with Apache and Nginx. Serve millions of customers with confidence \ ServerName myapp DocumentRoot /rails/myapp/public RailsEnv development \ Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all Minus the ability to run an inline debugger, it works the same as mongrel or webrick, except multi-threaded and faster. – Greg D. [http://destiney.com/](http://destiney.com/) ---
**Author:** ![rsm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@rsm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rsm)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 4:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/development-speed-boosters/162388/4 "2009-03-09T16:28:39Z")
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Roger M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > anyone know of any good development speed booster plugins or gems? the > larger my app becomes, the slower development time becomes… getting > painfully slow… Roger, I’m not sure if this is still being maintained with the latest version of Ruby on Rails, but it’s worth looking into. - [http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2007/08/28/rails-development-performance-tip-dev\_mode\_performance\_fixes](http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2007/08/28/rails-development-performance-tip-dev_mode_performance_fixes) I found it on Github as well: - [http://github.com/yyyc514/rails\_dev\_mode\_performance/tree](http://github.com/yyyc514/rails_dev_mode_performance/tree) Good luck! Cheers, Robby – Robby R. Chief Evangelist, Partner PLANET ARGON, LLC design // development // hosting w/Ruby on Rails > **[Planet Argon](https://www.planetargon.com/)** > > Planet Argon is a Ruby on Rails development agency specializing in maintenance and support for existing Rails apps. Based in Portland, OR, Planet Argon has been a member of the Rails community since 2004. [http://robbyonrails.com/](http://robbyonrails.com/) [http://twitter.com/planetargon](http://twitter.com/planetargon) aim: planetargon +1 503 445 2457 +1 877 55 ARGON [toll free] +1 815 642 4068 [fax] ---
**Author:** ![rsm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@rsm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rsm)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 9:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/development-speed-boosters/162388/5 "2009-03-09T21:58:27Z")
I think there is some ambiguity in your question. Are you talking about the speed of the application in development mode (as opposed to production) or the speed of development of the application by the developers? 2009/3/9 Roger M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)