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I think there's a valid case to be made that Spring and the rails auto-loader are pretty annoying/stupid in larger projects (or anytime you're going against the

• kureikain 9y ago
  This is a fair point. Yes, I come into lots of issue with Spring autoloader to the point I have a zsh alias call `kill_rails` to make sure it kills all the rails and spring instances :(. That's being said, Spring is an external tool to help solve the slowness of booting up Rails app. I have work in Java/Python and they are slow to bootup too just depend on how big the project is. Tool like: https://github.com/Shopify/bootsnap https://github.com/Shopify/bootsnap help to speed up this as well. Other option to look at: https://github.com/danielpclark/faster_path https://github.com/danielpclark/faster_path These solves the issue of scanning path, address slowness in a different way compare to preload mechanism of Spring.
• mtarnovan 9y ago
  GP was talking about this Spring: https://spring.io/ https://spring.io/ not the Rails preloader...
  • jcadam 9y ago
    Yes, I meant the Java uberframework beloved by architecture astronauts. I suppose I should have been more clear - I haven't uses RoR since version 3, so my knowledge of that ecosystem isn't very current :)