Slow assets ruby 1.9.3, macos, rails 3.2 Slow assets ruby 1.9.3, macos, rails 3.2 google-chrome google-chrome

Slow assets ruby 1.9.3, macos, rails 3.2


This seems to have something to do with name resolution.

Using (chrome) and

  • localhost:3000/ -- great performance
  • 127.0.0.1:3000/ -- great performance
  • hostname.local:3000/ - Terrible performance as you describe

This is unfortunate for me, as I have an alias set up in /etc/hosts to point to 127.0.0.1 that affects how the page gets displayed. So no testing of that in chrome.


I had the same problem.Try setting config.assets.debug = false in development.rb. It helped in my case.


We ran into this issue and solved it through using a pow server since it resolves to port 80.

To install pow

curl get.pow.cx | sh

Here is a link to the source for the paranoid.

Hope that helps.