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Rails 4.1 - Why Spring?

Now with Spring built-in with rails 4.1, I am curious about why the dev-team chose Spring over the others (Zeus and Spork).

Why did they choose Spring?

Solution

  • If you read the README from the v0.9 tag of Spring it should answer your question: https://github.com/rails/spring/tree/v0.0.9

    The highlights appear to be:

    • implemented in pure Ruby
    • makes use of Rails' built-in code reloader
    • totally automatic (boots up in the background the first time you run a command)