Using ZEUS to speed up things when developing

By installing the zeus gem via

gem install zeus

or by adding

gem "zeus"

to your Gemfile (be aware that zeus does not and probably won't ever work on Windows and therefore you'll have to remove it from your Gemfile when checking out your sources on a Windows machine) you can improve the reaction times of the local dev server (rails s) and the rails console (rails c) dramatically.

• Install zeus
• Start up the zeus server with zeus start
• Switch to a new console window (I tend to use screen on my linux box to do that comfortably) and you can fire up the zeus-improved rails webserver by using zeus s
• You can also access the improved console via zeus c

More info can be found here: https://github.com/burke/zeus