title: Why is rails bootstrap so slow and what can I do about it?
body: <p>Rails 3.0 is a serious dog. I've been developing on Rails for 5 years, and it's never been slower to startup. In particular, tests take forever to bootstrap on a top notch MacBook with SSD, so iteration cycles suffer severely. I need to read an article every time I start a test. It's insane and not "agile".  I might as well be compiling.</p>
  
  <p>This is the major motivation for me to finally move on from Rails - when I have the chance.</p>
  
  <p>If anyone has a solution, please offer it. I know many people suffer from this problem.</p>
  
  <p>I don't use rspec - I know there is a solution to help with tests for rspec.</p>
  
  <p>I'm using faster_require and rails-dev-boost, but there is no significant impact.</p>
  
  <p>I'm on ruby 1.9.2 and need to be. A single pretty simple controller test takes 26 seconds on a dual core 2.13 Ghz MacBook Air with 4Gb RAM and SSD! Why!?</p>