#devenvironment

…okay…I’m impatient when it comes to everything. Yesterday, I told my wife she needed to get home at 5:00 to make our dinner reservation. She showed up at 5:30. Obviously, I was not too happy. However, being the compassionate, understanding and forgiving husband that I am, I was able to get over it quickly. When it comes to me and my development environment, I possess none of these redeeming personality traits. I can’t stand waiting for anything.

Rails is so fast when I create a new project.  However, as time passes (or you inherit an already massive project), then the project slows down to the point where I notice some lag. Now, these lags may be 100% my fault (code bloat, poorly structured DB queries, etc.), but when I see the same transaction take 10x less time to complete on my production server, my eyebrows start inching up my forehead.

Eventually, I focused my frustrations to a google search and I stumbled upon this little gem: https://github.com/thedarkone/rails-dev-boost (if you’re a nerd like me, you’re really enjoying that double entrendre right about now). It sped me up by a factor of about 5x (according to my Rails log). Sweet!

I have had problems where I change my models and weird things start happening, so I have to restart my server. However, the documentation for the gem seems to cover some situations that fit that description, so it looks like it’s me and it’s fixable (whenever I get to it).