Ruby On Rails is slow…?

Question

I\'m writing a web application to monitor a furniture factory production flow. It has thousand of data to handle. So far, I run RoR on Mongrel + MySQL and it\'s really really sl

Answer 1

There are some good screen casts on this topic http://railslab.newrelic.com/scaling-rails

Things like fragmet caching and using :include (to avoid n+1) can help. It sounds like you're already using memcached, so why not curl the url to prefetch the cache?