Hello, Install This Plugin Now

Published 29 August 07 by Justin French

Courtesy of Robby Russell, I just stumbled upon Josh Goebel’s dev_mode_performance_fixes plugin, which really does seem to work as advertised.

Clicking around the RedBubble application in development mode feels way faster — 6x faster at least, mainly because we have stacks of image-heavy pages, with each image passed through the Rails stack on every request (yeah, they’re cached in production, but development mode is just painfully slow out-of-the-box).

So far, so good. Most changes seem to be picked up without restarting Mongrel (although a few random changes to inherited controllers needed a restart).

Three cheers!