Ruby on Rails starts very slowly on FreeBSD

Question

I've been running Ruby on Rails on FreeBSD. It takes 10-20 seconds just to load the environment. Is there anything that I can do to make it load faster, or is FreeBSD just not a good platform for Ruby on Rails?

Answer 1

Phusion's Ruby Enterprise Edition compiles on FreeBSD and runs faster with lower memory usage. There's no port for it (yet), but you can download it from their site and just run the install script.