# Webrick needs 80 seconds for starting

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-needs-80-seconds-for-starting/143617>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 21, 2008, 8:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-needs-80-seconds-for-starting/143617 "2008-07-21T08:20:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![luma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@luma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luma)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 8:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-needs-80-seconds-for-starting/143617/1 "2008-07-21T08:20:13Z")

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ruby script/console webrick

after 23 seconds:  
=\> Booting WEBrick…

after 78 seconds:  
=\> Rails application started on [http://0.0.0.0:3000](http://0.0.0.0:3000)  
=\> Ctrl-C to shutdown server; call with --help for options  
[2008-07-21 08:07:17] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1  
[2008-07-21 08:07:17] INFO ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24) [i386-mswin32]  
[2008-07-21 08:07:17] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=4664  
port=3000

Probably, it’s silly, but I have no idea why it takes so long, both on  
win xp and vista. I have 30 db-tables, 100 migrations, and 20000 lines  
of code. Clearing development.log didn’t help.

Luma

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**Author:** ![luma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@luma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luma)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 12:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-needs-80-seconds-for-starting/143617/2 "2008-07-21T12:40:05Z")

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Notice that mongrel binds to 0.0.0.0 . This does work. But it is very  
slow, so try changing it to bind to 127.0.0.1

ruby script\server -b 127.0.0.1

Thanks  
Kiran.

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**Author:** ![luma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@luma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luma)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 3:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-needs-80-seconds-for-starting/143617/3 "2008-07-21T15:07:42Z")

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sorry I was wrong, it’s not a webrick problem.

“rake db:migrate” and “rake test” also need so much time. But irb  
works well.

It’s like  
[http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse\_thread/thread/e5bae025c6fc49c1/72ecc5e3955f36a5?lnk=gst&q=rails+slow#72ecc5e3955f36a5](http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/e5bae025c6fc49c1/72ecc5e3955f36a5?lnk=gst&q=rails+slow#72ecc5e3955f36a5)

hm I think it won’t get faster…