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Rails is often slow. Ruby's plenty fast though. Puppet was trying to do a lot with the way that it was designed and I think it's probably a side effect.

Ansible can be plenty slow at time too.

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Rubygems is slow, the way that it requires files from libraries is by scanning through every gem, for every file, every time. Which is particularly brutal on Windows. It probably doesn't need to be that way via either extending the syntax to require from a specific gem and/or to have a file manifest database (and lose some manual hack-it-up-itude)

> Ansible can be plenty slow at time too.

Yep, I've never been a fan of Ansible. Beyond that slowness of it, the fact that it's duct tape of YAML and shell with randomness and a sprinkle of YAML craziness make it really hard for me to like it.

Fwiw, despite all that I still prefer it to the alternatives because it doesn't require an agent and is easy to use anywhere you have SSH access. So whether it's officially part of the agreed upon tools or not, I can still use it to make my own life easier vs raw SSH.

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