Benchmarking an Profiling of Rails apps

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Have you tried http-perf? I've heard good things about this screencast (all the peepcode screencasts are helpful, imo): http://peepcode.com/products/benchmarking-with-httperf

Also, I know that Rails 2.0 there's a new request profiler. See Ruby on Rails — Rails 2.0: It's done! and scroll down to the part about the new request profiler.

Hope this helps Jeff softiesonrails.com

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Hi      I am asking related to this. Is for benchmarking and profiling newrelic is used? In other words can I use newrelic to do these two jobs?

Thanks Tom

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Personally I’ve had a lot more success using DTrace to profile Rails apps. You can even attach to an existing process, so you can trace Passenger servers. You need to be running Mac OS X (Solaris may work too, but I don’t know) but most Rails devs do so…

You can find an example script on here:

http://github.com/andyjeffries/rails-analysis-tools (look at the Passenger DTrace script section of the readme)

Cheers,

Andy

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Hi Andy

  Thanks for your reply. I am totally a beginner So I would like to know if all these benchmarking and profiling we can get from using newrelic rpm?

Tom

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You can certainly get some information from newrelic (slowest controllers, db queries, etc) - I thought you were after more advanced detail.

You can also do script/performance/profiler or script/performance/benchmarker (you might want to google script performance rails).

Cheers,

Andy

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Hi Thanks for reply back. Meanwhile I got this too

    Thanks again

Tom