Rails 4.1 compatibility?

[jscheid]

Hi,

Is this supposed to work with Rails 4.1? I don't actually know what precisely your Gem is doing to speed things up, but it doesn't appear to fix the problem of asset requests checking for updated classes. In fact it seems to make it worse, loading a simple asset takes ~2 seconds with rails_dev_boost. Am I doing something wrong or is 4.1 just not supported (yet)?

[thedarkone]

Rails 4.1 should be supported. I just created an empty Rails 4.1 app, added rails-dev-boost gem, but wasn't able to reproduce the reported slow down.

Serving a simple tester.css.scss (via http://127.0.0.1:3000/assets/tester.css, tested with a simple ab -n 1000 http://127.0.0.1:3000/assets/tester.css) is giving me:

• about 380 requests per second without rails-dev-boost,
• and about 420 req/s with rails-dev-boost

@jscheid do you think you would be able to create a sample app, so I could poke around and see what is causing the problem for you?

[thedarkone]

ping @jscheid.

Do you have any updates on this? I think your issue might be somewhat related to #43 (where @obromios reported a similar assets related slow down, but I wasn't able to reproduce).

[jscheid]

Hi @thedarkone, sorry I didn't get back to you earlier.

To be honest, at least for our app I don't have a need for this project or related hacks/workarounds anymore.

For what it's worth, the change that made everything work quite snappy with Rails 4.1 for us was removing all the hacks and adding this setting:

config.assets.raise_runtime_errors = false

Just to clarify, I don't know if that means your project isn't useful in Rails 4.1, your timings above seem to indicate it can improve matters. All I'm saying is that in our case, the app now performs well enough in dev mode without it.

I can't provide you with a sample app -- the app with which I experienced the original problem isn't open source, and making a separate app for reproducing the issue would be quite a lot of work for which I just don't have the time.

Feel free to close this issue and sorry I can't be of more help.