The Story Behind Ruby 1.9.3 Getting 36% Faster Loading Times

Ruby Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering the latest Ruby and Rails news. Xavier Shay is an Australian Rubyist who shares an issue with most of us: slow loading Rails 3 apps on Ruby 1.9.2! Unlike most of us, he put together a solution for ruby-head (what I'm calling 1.9.3 but isn't technically*) that, in my own tests, slashed 37% off the boot time of my Rails 3.0 app. He shared his work just a w