README in faster_require-0.6.0 vs README in faster_require-0.7.0

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@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ A little utility to make require 'xxx' -take much less time. +take much less time. As in much less. Well, on windows at least. Well, mostly on windows--on linux it's a speedup of only 0.41 to 0.45s, or so. [1] If you've ever wondered why ruby feels slow on doze...sometimes it's just the startup time. This helps. @@ -33,11 +33,11 @@ without: 9s with: 6s -rake -T +running "rake -T" 1.9.1 without: 3.75s with: 1.5s @@ -46,6 +46,34 @@ with: 1.25s Note: in reality what we should do is fix core so that it doesn't have such awful I/O time in windows. There may be some gross inefficiency in there. For now, this is a work-around. [1] A sister project to this one, faster_gem_script, can make ruby scripts in linux run faster by 0.1s :) http://github.com/rdp/faster_gem_script -(in windows it's a much higher gain). Eventually they'll be combined into one "gem optimizer" gem. +(in windows it's a much higher gain). Eventually they'll be combined into one "gem optimizer" gem. + +== How to use in Rails == + +You can either install the gem, then add a + +require 'rubygems' +require 'faster_require' + + +in your config/environment.rb, or (the best way is as follows): + +Unpack it somewhere, like lib +$ cd my_rails_app/lib +$ gem unpack faster_require + +Now add this line to your config/environment.rb: + +require File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../lib/faster_require-0.7.0/lib/faster_require" # faster speeds all around... + +*before* this other (existing) line: + +require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'boot') + +Now it will speedup loading rubygems and everything. Happiness. + +Any problems report back: https://github.com/rdp/faster_require + +Enjoy. \ No newline at end of file