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burke / zeus

zeus

Boot any rails app in under a second.

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What it is

Boot any rails app in under a second.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

For a really fast Rails environment I highly recommend Zeus https://github.com/burke/zeus which is built in Go. It does a great job of reloading only the dependencies that have…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month8 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-08-13 06:36:38 UTC to 2013-12-18 01:16:17 UTC.

0122012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsAug 20122012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsApr 20132013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsDec 2013

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Aug 20122012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Sep 20122012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC211
Oct 20122012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20122012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC211
Dec 20122012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
Jan 20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20132013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20132013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20132013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20132013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20132013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20132013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20132013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20132013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20132013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20132013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20132013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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danso·Dec 18, 2013
No...Zeus is its own thing, AFAIK, though I guess it's described (by the Zeus maintainer) as "like Zeus but in pure Ruby, totally automatic, alpha and limited compatibility" https://github.com/burke/zeus#related-gems I started using Zeus a couple of weeks ago and then switched over to Spring last week...I never figured out how to get the custom Zeus files to let me run regular rails/rake commands with certain flags and parameters, but Spring pretty much worked right out of the box. It works so well that I've been wary that it might cause issues in edge cases of test configuration, but haven't run into any yet...and now that it's a part of Rails, guess I'll be even less wary. It's definitely changed how I do TDD for Rails, in that I will actually do TDD for Rails, because the tests run so quickly. Yes, being hindered by Rails bootup just t
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o run tests might be indicative of unneeded coupling, but sometimes a project doesn't require great abstraction, but still needs decent integration coverage. Spring is pretty handy for that.
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