OpenSSL causing very slow Rails boot time on Windows

Question

I\'m having a problem with Ruby on Rails running extremely slowly. I\'m using Ruby 2.1.3p242 and Rails 4.2.1 on a Windows 8 machine.

Whenever I run anything that req

Answer 1

I have been a windows rails dev for a while now. I have never solved this rails startup issue. Running a microsecond Rspec test takes rails 22 seconds to load on my PC. When I (temporarily) comment out the line in securerandom.rb (all ruby versions) and replace it with a hardcoded return the startup time is reduced to 10 seconds.

#return OpenSSL::Random.random_bytes(n)
return "\xD3\x04F\f0\xD6{G\xB9\x81"