27 Jun 2014 Rails in 0.5 seconds You too can boot a Rails app in as little as 500ms! Here’s how, using lazy require statements and not loading Bundler or Rubygems at runtime. 🏃💨💫💞 A couple of weeks ago, I had a great conversation with a Ruby developer in Paris, and we talked about the things we liked and didn’t like about Ruby and Rails when compared to other options. He had just tried Node.js