diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/routing/route_set.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/routing/route_set.rb
index b767426de4e342f6acef0774b90747e1227e523c..57c697207821d14a90a94cbb53a7ed12b674513f 100644
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/routing/route_set.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/routing/route_set.rb
@@ -9,6 +9,12 @@
 module ActionDispatch
   module Routing
     class RouteSet #:nodoc:
+      # Since the router holds references to many parts of the system
+      # like engines, controllers and the application itself, inspecting
+      # the route set can actually be really slow, therefore we default
+      # alias inspect to to_s.
+      alias inspect to_s
+
       PARAMETERS_KEY = 'action_dispatch.request.path_parameters'
 
       class Dispatcher #:nodoc: