Rails server takes a long time to start up

Question

I was working on a Rails project, but while I wasn't paying attention my computer battery died while the rails server was still running.

Now when I type rails s , the rails server takes a very very long time to start up. I timed it at about 40 seconds. It did not take this long before.

I tried looking up other answers, but nothing really worked.

Any help is appreciated, thanks.

I'm running a 2010 Macbook Pro, Rails 4.2.0

Answer 1

You can turn eager_loading and cache_control false and then it will take few seconds to start server

1. go to development.rb file
2. "config.cache_classes" and "config.eager_load" turn to false

Note: By turning cache_control to false will gradually increase server boot up time ( in development environment ) as you don't need to restart webserver when you make changes in code. By turning eager_load to false will increase server boot up time from 2 minutes to 10 seconds but can cause inconsistency so use it wisely.