Throttling requests to a Ruby on Rails API

Question

Trying to Google around for an a Rails plugin that will allow for throttling the amount of requests a particular resource gets consumed. Django\'s Piston has some open source co

Answer 1

There's a SO thread here about why you might want to rate limit outside your application. Food for thought, at least. I'm looking for this solution myself, and am up in the air whether I want to do it in the application layer.