Rails - Jun 2005 - Anyone know of a good stress test for a Rails app?

Some of you seem to be very well equipped when it comes to testing  
and monitoring server load.  Are there some specific tools that you''d  
recommend for load or stress testing a rails app before it goes live?

Thanks for your help,
Duane Johnson
(canadaduane)

On 6/20/05, Duane Johnson
<duane.johnson-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Some of you seem to be very well equipped when it comes to testing
> and monitoring server load.  Are there some specific tools that
you''d
> recommend for load or stress testing a rails app before it goes live?
Any website benchmarking tool should do.

ab (Apache Benchmark): http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/programs/ab.html
siege: http://www.joedog.org/siege/

The Rails book has detailed instructions on how to use them properly
if you happen to have that...

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rick
http://techno-weenie.net

I have five trained monkeys clicking reload as fast as they can. 
Works pretty well, little smelly though.

On 6/20/05, Duane Johnson
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wrote:
> Some of you seem to be very well equipped when it comes to testing
> and monitoring server load.  Are there some specific tools that
you''d
> recommend for load or stress testing a rails app before it goes live?
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Duane Johnson
> (canadaduane)
> 
> 
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On 6/20/05, Joe Van Dyk
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wrote:
> I have five trained monkeys clicking reload as fast as they can.
> Works pretty well, little smelly though.
You think that''s funny, but I''ve done that.  I had 2 friends
hitting
an early ASP.Net site and saw it eat up my SQL Server connection pool.
 It was then that I learned how to properly manage my database
connections in .Net :)


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* Joe Van Dyk [2005-06-20 18:15]:
> I have five trained monkeys clicking reload as fast as they can. 
> Works pretty well, little smelly though.
> 
If you can''t afford your own team of monkeys, just get a link to your
site onto Slashdot! Instant team of monkeys! (they might smell as bad
but since they''re remotely located, no stench!)

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Or another "real" answer, JMeter:

http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/

Fancy GUI and all too. The monkeyfleet is definitely a more vivid image
though...

This will obviously require Java, and runs in GUI or CLI mode, also with
proxies and the like, distributed clients, etc.


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Duane Johnson wrote:
> Some of you seem to be very well equipped when it comes to testing  and 
> monitoring server load.  Are there some specific tools that you''d
> recommend for load or stress testing a rails app before it goes live?
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Duane Johnson
> (canadaduane)
Wouldn''t this be another use of Watir, with the added benefit that you 
don''t have to leave Rubyland?

Cheers,

Jim

Hi Duane,
> Some of you seem to be very well equipped when it comes to testing  
> and monitoring server load.  Are there some specific tools that
you''d
> recommend for load or stress testing a rails app before it goes live?
I''m not sure I can offer anything in terms of the stress testing, but 
I''ve found rrdtool invaluable for watching trends and such.. a good 
start is to grab HotSaNIC ( http://hotsanic.sourceforge.net/ )

This will give you a ton of useful rrdtool based graphs (load, mem, cpu, 
bw, etc) to keep an eye on - everyone loves graphs, right?!

Hope this helps
-Paul

Check out The Grinder for load testing.

Jamie
On Jun 20, 2005, at 5:56 PM, Duane Johnson wrote:
> Some of you seem to be very well equipped when it comes to testing and 
> monitoring server load.  Are there some specific tools that you''d 
> recommend for load or stress testing a rails app before it goes live?
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Duane Johnson
> (canadaduane)
>
>
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