Best way to stress test a rails web app? [closed]

Answer 1

WebLoad is open source:

http://www.webload.org/

Answer 2

There's a good summary of tools here.

Answer 3

I would personally go with Apache Bench http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/programs/ab.html

It's free, straight forward to use and lightweight.

If you are looking for a something a little more robust then I think Apache JMeter might be worth looking at. http://jmeter.apache.org/. Again, it's free, a bit of a learning curve and has a GUI so a little heavier.

You might also want to take a look at this Q/A Performing a Stress Test on Web Application?

Answer 4

Rails comes with performance testing built in: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/performance_testing.html

Answer 5

You can try Trample, it is load simulation tool here

Answer 6

If you want to visualize performance instead of just look at the numbers you might try Engulf. It's Open Source Software, distributed, and high-performance. http://engulf-project.org/#usage Disclaimer: It's a project I work on.