Installing Rails needs a lot of patience. The command is simple “gem install rails”. But it is a resource hungry and a time consuming installation.

I started the installation at 00:00:00 HRS and it is 03:22:23 HRS now and the installation is still going on.

And look at the memory footprint of the ruby program that is installing rails.

Mem footprint

And here is the Performance Statistics:

Why is an installation taking such a long time?

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