title: Fast Ruby but slow Rails
body: <ol>
  <li><p>Why is <code>rails --version</code> command much slower than <code>ruby --version</code>? </p></li>
  <li><p>Can we make <code>rails</code> command fast as <code>ruby</code> command?</p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>On Windows 8, the <code>ruby --version</code> command runs without delay but <code>rails --version</code> takes some time (a few seconds).</p>