Rails development server is slow and takes a long time to load a simple page

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There are similar threads about Rails being slow in development mode, but none of the solutions in those threads has made any difference for me. I\'ve tried installing gems that

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I tried what they recommended in this post (Diagnosing the cause of slow view rendering), and it worked. Asset pipeline is enabled, and page loading goes from 20-40 seconds to like 1 second. much better at least.

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Basically, it turns out the delay was being caused by config.assets.debug = true inside of development.rb. I made it false and it seems to be faster.

The Rails guys say that enabling debug will slow down really complicated apps, but this was just a simple tutorial app with literally 1 model/controller/view. Anyways, I hope these performance gains last, but it does solve my immediate problem.

~ answer per Dave Bowman