Rails - Mar 2006 - on components

There''s an excellent write up by Stefan Kaes that''s specific
to
components and how they can slow down a Rails apps, but also offers  
an excellent introduction to using Ruby profiling tools to identify  
and remove bottlenecks at:

<http://railsexpress.de/blog/articles/2005/11/18/components-may-not- 
be-evil-but-they-sure-can-be-slow>

--
Jason Perkins
jperkins@sneer.org

"The key to performance is elegance, not
  battalions of special cases."
  - Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy