thoughtbot/copycopter_client — Issue #9: Copycopter slows down development and staging environment to the point that it's unusable
Author: aaronjensen
Created: 2011-10-21 22:47:41+00:00
State: open

It takes anywhere from 3-7 seconds usually for copycopter to check for updates to strings. I don't know if it's because our app has grown to the point where the dump is several MB or what, but it makes the development environment unusable. Furthermore, in order to disable the refresh we have to set the development environments to `[]` which has the unfortunate side effect of not updating the server whenever we add a new key. So we really need to manually switch between running in "development" (according to copycopter) and not.

Is there a way to speed things up and/or have a hybrid environment in which new strings will get pushed to the server but it won't check for updates every request?