Rails with webrick slow as snails

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1

I've followed the sample installation http://www.leetsoft.com/rails/lesson1.html step by step and it works, I think. I got the same message as the example

BUT

1. when starting the webrick from the command line, IT'S SLOW AS SNAIL
2. when pointing to the http://localhost:3000/hello/index, IT SLOW AS
         SNAIL AS WELL. It takes at least 4 minutes to get the result.

What am I doing wrong?

Below are the error on the console:

#<WEBrick::HTTPStatus::NotFound: `/hello/index' not found.>
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2004:13:20:29 Eastern Standard Time] "GET /hello/index HTTP/1.1" 200 306
- -> /hello/index
#<WEBrick::HTTPStatus::NotFound: `/favicon.ico' not found.>
[2004-12-01 13:25:19] ERROR `/favicon.ico' not found.
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2004:13:25:19 Eastern Standard Time] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 281
- -> /favicon.ico
#<WEBrick::HTTPStatus::NotFound: `/hello/index' not found.>

2

BUT

1. when starting the webrick from the command line, IT'S SLOW AS SNAIL
2. when pointing to the http://localhost:3000/hello/index, IT SLOW AS
        SNAIL AS WELL. It takes at least 4 minutes to get the result.

What am I doing wrong?

What kind of hardware are you running on? 4 minutes sound insane in any case, though.

The reloading WEBrick dispatcher is indeed dog slow in 0.8.5 (around ~1 second per reload on my G4 1.5ghz). This is being greatly remedied in the forthcoming 0.9.0 that's already available as beta gems right now.

The new approach uses a two-tiered approach to requiring classes where your app is reloaded on every request, but the framework remains cached and the interpreter is reused. This is much, much more efficient and hence much faster.

One guy reported going from 10s per page load to much less than a second on his G3 400mhz Mac.

So if you don't find out what's screwing up your current installation, you might want to try out the beta gems. They can be fetched with:

gem update -s http://gems.rubyonrails.org

For convenience, there's even an executable start_server command in the root of new apps created with 0.9. Click that and the WEBrick server starts.

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David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:

BUT

1. when starting the webrick from the command line, IT'S SLOW AS SNAIL
2. when pointing to the http://localhost:3000/hello/index, IT SLOW AS
        SNAIL AS WELL. It takes at least 4 minutes to get the result.

What am I doing wrong?

What kind of hardware are you running on? 4 minutes sound insane in any case, though.

The reloading WEBrick dispatcher is indeed dog slow in 0.8.5 (around ~1 second per reload on my G4 1.5ghz). This is being greatly remedied in the forthcoming 0.9.0 that's already available as beta gems right now.

The new approach uses a two-tiered approach to requiring classes where your app is reloaded on every request, but the framework remains cached and the interpreter is reused. This is much, much more efficient and hence much faster.

One guy reported going from 10s per page load to much less than a second on his G3 400mhz Mac.

So if you don't find out what's screwing up your current installation, you might want to try out the beta gems. They can be fetched with:

gem update -s http://gems.rubyonrails.org

For convenience, there's even an executable start_server command in the root of new apps created with 0.9. Click that and the WEBrick server starts.
--
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http://www.basecamphq.com/ -- Web-based Project Management
http://www.rubyonrails.org/ -- Web-application framework for Ruby
http://macromates.com/ -- TextMate: Code and markup editor (OS X)
http://www.loudthinking.com/ -- Broadcasting Brain

Hi David, I'm running PIII/800MHz laptop. Perhaps I did exagerate a bit, but not much. It takes at least 3 minutes for the sample page to come up and it will take just as long to reload/refresh the same page. Plus, starting up the "ruby dispatch.servlet -a" takes at least 1 minutes.

I will try what you suggested by updating it to the latest beta.

Thanks

4

Hi David, I'm running PIII/800MHz laptop. Perhaps I did exagerate a bit, but not much. It takes at least 3 minutes for the sample page to come up and it will take just as long to reload/refresh the same page. Plus, starting up the "ruby dispatch.servlet -a" takes at least 1 minutes.

I will try what you suggested by updating it to the latest beta.

Something is obviously broken in your setup. Your machine should be fully capable of reloading that screen in MAX 5 seconds, I'd say. And I'd think it should be more like 2-3. I wonder if something is trying to resolve something and waiting for a timeout. Could sound like it.

If that's the case, maybe it won't even help to upgrade to the beta rails. You should probably try do to a simple test with webrick and see if you can get that to perform if possible.

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5

Hello Sarah,

Hi David, I'm running PIII/800MHz laptop. Perhaps I did exagerate a bit,
but not much. It takes at least 3 minutes for the sample page to come up
and it will take just as long to reload/refresh the same page. Plus,
starting up the "ruby dispatch.servlet -a" takes at least 1 minutes.

I will try what you suggested by updating it to the latest beta.

Do you have the Windows SP2 firewall enabled ? I also got a 20 sec
delay for the first connect on my 2,8Ghz PIV machine (VMWare sandbox)
before i turned the firewall off.

3 minutes is a clear sign that the problem is your envrionment and not
inside ruby/rails.

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6

Lothar Scholz wrote:

Hello Sarah,

> Hi David, I'm running PIII/800MHz laptop. Perhaps I did exagerate a bit,
> but not much. It takes at least 3 minutes for the sample page to come up
> and it will take just as long to reload/refresh the same page. Plus,
> starting up the "ruby dispatch.servlet -a" takes at least 1 minutes.

> I will try what you suggested by updating it to the latest beta.

Do you have the Windows SP2 firewall enabled ? I also got a 20 sec
delay for the first connect on my 2,8Ghz PIV machine (VMWare sandbox)
before i turned the firewall off.

3 minutes is a clear sign that the problem is your envrionment and not
inside ruby/rails.

Dear David & Lothar, I did try using the Webrick's Hello servlet sample script and the response is much faster, both the startup and http access. Any idea?

Thanks

7

Lothar Scholz wrote:

Hello Sarah,

> Hi David, I'm running PIII/800MHz laptop. Perhaps I did exagerate a bit,
> but not much. It takes at least 3 minutes for the sample page to come up
> and it will take just as long to reload/refresh the same page. Plus,
> starting up the "ruby dispatch.servlet -a" takes at least 1 minutes.

> I will try what you suggested by updating it to the latest beta.

Do you have the Windows SP2 firewall enabled ? I also got a 20 sec
delay for the first connect on my 2,8Ghz PIV machine (VMWare sandbox)
before i turned the firewall off.

3 minutes is a clear sign that the problem is your envrionment and not
inside ruby/rails.

Below are the log from the console of '%> ruby dispatch.servlet -a'

C:\rails\public>ruby dispatch.servlet -a
dispatch: invalid option: -a
[2004-12-01 17:18:46] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1
[2004-12-01 17:18:46] INFO ruby 1.8.2 (2004-11-06) [i386-mswin32]
[2004-12-01 17:18:46] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=2620 port=3000
#<WEBrick::HTTPStatus::NotFound: `/favicon.ico' not found.>
[2004-12-01 17:21:18] ERROR `/favicon.ico' not found.
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2004:17:21:18 Eastern Standard Time] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 281
- -> /favicon.ico
#<WEBrick::HTTPStatus::NotFound: `/hello/index' not found.>
X:/websites/rails/public/../config/environments/shared.rb:1: warning: already initialized constant ADDITIONAL_LOAD_PATHS
#<NameError: undefined method `database_configurations' for class `Builder::BlankSlate'>
["x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-0.9.5.200412010045/lib/action_view/vendor/builder/blankslate.rb:20:in `un
ef_method'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-0.9.5.200412010045/lib/action_view/vendor/builder/blankslate.
b:20:in `hide'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-0.9.5.200412010045/lib/action_view/vendor/builder/blanksl
te.rb:48:in `method_added'", "X:/websites/rails/public/../config/environments/shared.rb:15", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/site_r
by/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in `require__'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5
in `require'", "X:/websites/rails/public/../config/environments/production.rb:1", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rub
gems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in `require__'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in `requir
'", "X:/websites/rails/public/dispatch.rb:3", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-0.8.5.200412010045/lib/webrick_se
ver.rb:122:in `load'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-0.8.5.200412010045/lib/webrick_server.rb:122:in `handle_
ispatch'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-0.8.5.200412010045/lib/webrick_server.rb:101:in `handle_mapped'", "x
/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-0.8.5.200412010045/lib/webrick_server.rb:53:in `do_GET'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/l
b/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpservlet/abstract.rb:35:in `__send__'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpservlet/abstract.rb:3
:in `service'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.rb:97:in `service'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/web
ick/httpserver.rb:58:in `run'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:153:in `start_thread'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.
/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:147:in `start'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:147:in `start_thread'", "x:/
pps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:97:in `start'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:89:in `each'
, "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:89:in `start'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:79:in
`start'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:79:in `start'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails
0.8.5.200412010045/lib/webrick_server.rb:37:in `dispatch'", "dispatch.servlet:45"]
[2004-12-01 17:21:40] ERROR `/hello/index' not found.
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2004:17:21:30 Eastern Standard Time] "GET /hello/index HTTP/1.1" 404 281
- -> /hello/index
#<WEBrick::HTTPStatus::NotFound: `/favicon.ico' not found.>
[2004-12-01 17:21:41] ERROR `/favicon.ico' not found.
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2004:17:21:40 Eastern Standard Time] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 281
- -> /favicon.ico
#<WEBrick::HTTPStatus::NotFound: `/hello/index' not found.>
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2004:17:22:42 Eastern Standard Time] "GET /hello/index HTTP/1.1" 200 306
- -> /hello/index
#<WEBrick::HTTPStatus::NotFound: `/favicon.ico' not found.>
[2004-12-01 17:22:48] ERROR `/favicon.ico' not found.
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2004:17:22:48 Eastern Standard Time] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 281
- -> /favicon.ico
#<WEBrick::HTTPStatus::NotFound: `/hello/index' not found.>
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2004:17:23:05 Eastern Standard Time] "GET /hello/index HTTP/1.1" 200 306
- -> /hello/index
#<WEBrick::HTTPStatus::NotFound: `/favicon.ico' not found.>
[2004-12-01 17:23:07] ERROR `/favicon.ico' not found.
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2004:17:23:07 Eastern Standard Time] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 281
- -> /favicon.ico
#<WEBrick::HTTPStatus::NotFound: `/hello/index' not found.>
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2004:17:23:25 Eastern Standard Time] "GET /hello/index HTTP/1.1" 200 306
- -> /hello/index
#<WEBrick::HTTPStatus::NotFound: `/favicon.ico' not found.>
[2004-12-01 17:23:31] ERROR `/favicon.ico' not found.
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2004:17:23:31 Eastern Standard Time] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 281
- -> /favicon.ico

8

under windows it seems to be very important to use rubyw.exe and not
ruby.exe for performance. Maybe thats it ?

···

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 07:32:45 +0900, Sarah Tanembaum <sarahtanembaum@yahoo.com> wrote:

Lothar Scholz wrote:

> Hello Sarah,
>
> > Hi David, I'm running PIII/800MHz laptop. Perhaps I did exagerate a bit,
> > but not much. It takes at least 3 minutes for the sample page to come up
> > and it will take just as long to reload/refresh the same page. Plus,
> > starting up the "ruby dispatch.servlet -a" takes at least 1 minutes.
>
> > I will try what you suggested by updating it to the latest beta.
>
> Do you have the Windows SP2 firewall enabled ? I also got a 20 sec
> delay for the first connect on my 2,8Ghz PIV machine (VMWare sandbox)
> before i turned the firewall off.
>
> 3 minutes is a clear sign that the problem is your envrionment and not
> inside ruby/rails.
>

Below are the log from the console of '%> ruby dispatch.servlet -a'

C:\rails\public>ruby dispatch.servlet -a
dispatch: invalid option: -a
[2004-12-01 17:18:46] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1
[2004-12-01 17:18:46] INFO ruby 1.8.2 (2004-11-06) [i386-mswin32]
[2004-12-01 17:18:46] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=2620 port=3000
#<WEBrick::HTTPStatus::NotFound: `/favicon.ico' not found.>
[2004-12-01 17:21:18] ERROR `/favicon.ico' not found.
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2004:17:21:18 Eastern Standard Time] "GET
/favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 281
- -> /favicon.ico
#<WEBrick::HTTPStatus::NotFound: `/hello/index' not found.>
X:/websites/rails/public/../config/environments/shared.rb:1: warning:
already initialized constant ADDITIONAL_LOAD_PATHS
#<NameError: undefined method `database_configurations' for class
`Builder::BlankSlate'>
["x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-0.9.5.200412010045/lib/action_view/vendor/builder/blankslate.rb:20:in
`un
ef_method'",
"x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-0.9.5.200412010045/lib/action_view/vendor/builder/blankslate.
b:20:in `hide'",
"x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-0.9.5.200412010045/lib/action_view/vendor/builder/blanksl
te.rb:48:in `method_added'",
"X:/websites/rails/public/../config/environments/shared.rb:15",
"x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/site_r
by/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in `require__'",
"x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5
in `require'",
"X:/websites/rails/public/../config/environments/production.rb:1",
"x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rub
gems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in `require__'",
"x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in
`requir
'", "X:/websites/rails/public/dispatch.rb:3",
"x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-0.8.5.200412010045/lib/webrick_se
ver.rb:122:in `load'",
"x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-0.8.5.200412010045/lib/webrick_server.rb:122:in
`handle_
ispatch'",
"x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-0.8.5.200412010045/lib/webrick_server.rb:101:in
`handle_mapped'", "x
/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-0.8.5.200412010045/lib/webrick_server.rb:53:in
`do_GET'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/l
b/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpservlet/abstract.rb:35:in `__send__'",
"x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpservlet/abstract.rb:3
:in `service'",
"x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.rb:97:in
`service'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/web
ick/httpserver.rb:58:in `run'",
"x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:153:in
`start_thread'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.
/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:147:in `start'",
"x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:147:in
`start_thread'", "x:/
pps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:97:in `start'",
"x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:89:in `each'
, "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:89:in `start'",
"x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:79:in
`start'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:79:in
`start'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails
0.8.5.200412010045/lib/webrick_server.rb:37:in `dispatch'",
"dispatch.servlet:45"]
[2004-12-01 17:21:40] ERROR `/hello/index' not found.
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2004:17:21:30 Eastern Standard Time] "GET
/hello/index HTTP/1.1" 404 281
- -> /hello/index
#<WEBrick::HTTPStatus::NotFound: `/favicon.ico' not found.>
[2004-12-01 17:21:41] ERROR `/favicon.ico' not found.
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2004:17:21:40 Eastern Standard Time] "GET
/favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 281
- -> /favicon.ico
#<WEBrick::HTTPStatus::NotFound: `/hello/index' not found.>
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2004:17:22:42 Eastern Standard Time] "GET
/hello/index HTTP/1.1" 200 306
- -> /hello/index
#<WEBrick::HTTPStatus::NotFound: `/favicon.ico' not found.>
[2004-12-01 17:22:48] ERROR `/favicon.ico' not found.
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2004:17:22:48 Eastern Standard Time] "GET
/favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 281
- -> /favicon.ico
#<WEBrick::HTTPStatus::NotFound: `/hello/index' not found.>
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2004:17:23:05 Eastern Standard Time] "GET
/hello/index HTTP/1.1" 200 306
- -> /hello/index
#<WEBrick::HTTPStatus::NotFound: `/favicon.ico' not found.>
[2004-12-01 17:23:07] ERROR `/favicon.ico' not found.
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2004:17:23:07 Eastern Standard Time] "GET
/favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 281
- -> /favicon.ico
#<WEBrick::HTTPStatus::NotFound: `/hello/index' not found.>
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2004:17:23:25 Eastern Standard Time] "GET
/hello/index HTTP/1.1" 200 306
- -> /hello/index
#<WEBrick::HTTPStatus::NotFound: `/favicon.ico' not found.>
[2004-12-01 17:23:31] ERROR `/favicon.ico' not found.
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2004:17:23:31 Eastern Standard Time] "GET

/favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 281
- -> /favicon.ico

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9

I see a X: drive in your log. Are you running the ruby and rails files off of a network drive?

Regards,
Nick

Sarah Tanembaum wrote:

···

Lothar Scholz wrote:

Hello Sarah,

> Hi David, I'm running PIII/800MHz laptop. Perhaps I did exagerate a bit,
> but not much. It takes at least 3 minutes for the sample page to come up
> and it will take just as long to reload/refresh the same page. Plus,
> starting up the "ruby dispatch.servlet -a" takes at least 1 minutes.

> I will try what you suggested by updating it to the latest beta.

Do you have the Windows SP2 firewall enabled ? I also got a 20 sec
delay for the first connect on my 2,8Ghz PIV machine (VMWare sandbox)
before i turned the firewall off.

3 minutes is a clear sign that the problem is your envrionment and not
inside ruby/rails.

Below are the log from the console of '%> ruby dispatch.servlet -a'

C:\rails\public>ruby dispatch.servlet -a
dispatch: invalid option: -a
[2004-12-01 17:18:46] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1
[2004-12-01 17:18:46] INFO ruby 1.8.2 (2004-11-06) [i386-mswin32]
[2004-12-01 17:18:46] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=2620 port=3000
#<WEBrick::HTTPStatus::NotFound: `/favicon.ico' not found.>
[2004-12-01 17:21:18] ERROR `/favicon.ico' not found.
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2004:17:21:18 Eastern Standard Time] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 281
- -> /favicon.ico
#<WEBrick::HTTPStatus::NotFound: `/hello/index' not found.>
X:/websites/rails/public/../config/environments/shared.rb:1: warning: already initialized constant ADDITIONAL_LOAD_PATHS
#<NameError: undefined method `database_configurations' for class `Builder::BlankSlate'>
["x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-0.9.5.200412010045/lib/action_view/vendor/builder/blankslate.rb:20:in `un
ef_method'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-0.9.5.200412010045/lib/action_view/vendor/builder/blankslate.

b:20:in `hide'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-0.9.5.200412010045/lib/action_view/vendor/builder/blanksl

te.rb:48:in `method_added'", "X:/websites/rails/public/../config/environments/shared.rb:15", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/site_r
by/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in `require__'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5

in `require'", "X:/websites/rails/public/../config/environments/production.rb:1", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rub
gems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in `require__'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in `requir
'", "X:/websites/rails/public/dispatch.rb:3", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-0.8.5.200412010045/lib/webrick_se

ver.rb:122:in `load'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-0.8.5.200412010045/lib/webrick_server.rb:122:in `handle_
ispatch'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-0.8.5.200412010045/lib/webrick_server.rb:101:in `handle_mapped'", "x
/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-0.8.5.200412010045/lib/webrick_server.rb:53:in `do_GET'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/l
b/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpservlet/abstract.rb:35:in `__send__'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpservlet/abstract.rb:3
:in `service'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.rb:97:in `service'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/web
ick/httpserver.rb:58:in `run'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:153:in `start_thread'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.
/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:147:in `start'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:147:in `start_thread'", "x:/
pps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:97:in `start'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:89:in `each'
, "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:89:in `start'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:79:in
`start'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:79:in `start'", "x:/apps/ruby/ruby-1.8/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails
0.8.5.200412010045/lib/webrick_server.rb:37:in `dispatch'", "dispatch.servlet:45"]
[2004-12-01 17:21:40] ERROR `/hello/index' not found.
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2004:17:21:30 Eastern Standard Time] "GET /hello/index HTTP/1.1" 404 281
- -> /hello/index
#<WEBrick::HTTPStatus::NotFound: `/favicon.ico' not found.>
[2004-12-01 17:21:41] ERROR `/favicon.ico' not found.
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2004:17:21:40 Eastern Standard Time] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 281
- -> /favicon.ico
#<WEBrick::HTTPStatus::NotFound: `/hello/index' not found.>
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2004:17:22:42 Eastern Standard Time] "GET /hello/index HTTP/1.1" 200 306
- -> /hello/index
#<WEBrick::HTTPStatus::NotFound: `/favicon.ico' not found.>
[2004-12-01 17:22:48] ERROR `/favicon.ico' not found.
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2004:17:22:48 Eastern Standard Time] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 281
- -> /favicon.ico
#<WEBrick::HTTPStatus::NotFound: `/hello/index' not found.>
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2004:17:23:05 Eastern Standard Time] "GET /hello/index HTTP/1.1" 200 306
- -> /hello/index
#<WEBrick::HTTPStatus::NotFound: `/favicon.ico' not found.>
[2004-12-01 17:23:07] ERROR `/favicon.ico' not found.
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2004:17:23:07 Eastern Standard Time] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 281
- -> /favicon.ico
#<WEBrick::HTTPStatus::NotFound: `/hello/index' not found.>
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2004:17:23:25 Eastern Standard Time] "GET /hello/index HTTP/1.1" 200 306
- -> /hello/index
#<WEBrick::HTTPStatus::NotFound: `/favicon.ico' not found.>
[2004-12-01 17:23:31] ERROR `/favicon.ico' not found.
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2004:17:23:31 Eastern Standard Time] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 281
- -> /favicon.ico

10

Tobias Luetke wrote:

under windows it seems to be very important to use rubyw.exe and not
ruby.exe for performance. Maybe thats it ?

Question: I've seen this mentioned a few times now. If this is the case, does the ruby installer for Windows associate .rb files with ruby.exe or rubyw.exe? It would seem silly to be saying it should be one way and then have all the default behaviors do it the other way. If there is no good use for ruby.exe, then we should simply rename rubyw.exe to ruby.exe.

11

Nicholas Van Weerdenburg wrote:

I see a X: drive in your log. Are you running the ruby and rails files off of a network drive?

Regards,
Nick

Nope! I have a disks and a few partitions. All in one machine.

Regards,
Sarah

12

Hello Carl,

Tobias Luetke wrote:

under windows it seems to be very important to use rubyw.exe and not
ruby.exe for performance. Maybe thats it ?

Question: I've seen this mentioned a few times now. If this is the
case, does the ruby installer for Windows associate .rb files with
ruby.exe or rubyw.exe? It would seem silly to be saying it should be
one way and then have all the default behaviors do it the other way. If
there is no good use for ruby.exe, then we should simply rename
rubyw.exe to ruby.exe.

rubyw.exe is faster if you don't need standart output, because everything
is going to /dev/null.

I believe that most programs are still command line programs that
write something useful to standart output. So ther current
associations are correct.

···

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Best regards, emailto: scholz at scriptolutions dot com
Lothar Scholz http://www.ruby-ide.com
CTO Scriptolutions Ruby, PHP, Python IDE 's

13

Carl Youngblood wrote:

Tobias Luetke wrote:

>under windows it seems to be very important to use rubyw.exe and not
>ruby.exe for performance. Maybe thats it ?

I'm running webrick with ruby.exe without any slowdown problem.

Question: I've seen this mentioned a few times now. If this is the
case, does the ruby installer for Windows associate .rb files with
ruby.exe or rubyw.exe? It would seem silly to be saying it should be
one way and then have all the default behaviors do it the other way. If
there is no good use for ruby.exe, then we should simply rename
rubyw.exe to ruby.exe.

The one-click installer associates *.rb files with ruby.exe and *.rbw files
with rubyw.exe.

Curt

14

Lothar Scholz wrote:

Hello Carl,

> Tobias Luetke wrote:

under windows it seems to be very important to use rubyw.exe and not
ruby.exe for performance. Maybe thats it ?

> Question: I've seen this mentioned a few times now. If this is the
> case, does the ruby installer for Windows associate .rb files with
> ruby.exe or rubyw.exe? It would seem silly to be saying it should be
> one way and then have all the default behaviors do it the other way. If
> there is no good use for ruby.exe, then we should simply rename > rubyw.exe to ruby.exe.

rubyw.exe is faster if you don't need standart output, because everything
is going to /dev/null.

I believe that most programs are still command line programs that
write something useful to standart output. So ther current
associations are correct.

I agree with Lothar.

method_scope is just a simple test script that prints stuff to stdout.
first with original ruby

H:\ruby\Spielwiese>method_scope.rb
bar
A.moo
instance moo

now I renamed rubyw to ruby
H:\ruby\Spielwiese>method_scope.rb

H:\ruby\Spielwiese>

I'd like to see the output. :slight_smile:

regards,
Henrik

15

Lothar Scholz wrote:

rubyw.exe is faster if you don't need standart output, because everything
is going to /dev/null.

I believe that most programs are still command line programs that
write something useful to standart output. So ther current
associations are correct.

Okay. I didn't realize there was this difference. Thanks