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Ruby on Rails Optimizing Performance

Ruby on Rails is very fun, i love it, but Ruby sometimes can be slow.. So here there are some hints to speed up your Ruby on Rails web application.

Rails Performance Tips

• Common Performance Problems in Rails - Pros and con between SQLSessionStore and MemChacheStore session containers, tips on optimizing queries, and general information regarding how to avoid slow helpers.
• The Adventures of Scaling: Stage 1, Stage 2, Stage 3, Stage 4 - A detailed explanation a Rails production architecture.
• Optimizing Rails Resource Usage - A short list of top Rails optimization tips, which include the proper use of caching.
• Sustainable Performance with Ruby on Rails - A 58 page PDF presentation describing railsbench, caching, session performance, and efficient Ruby code.
• Rails performance tips - A discussion on eager loading, excluding unnecessary columns, indexing database columns, and caching.
• Top 10 Ruby on Rails performance tips - Provides great tips to optimize your ruby code and how to handle finders.
• Performance related changes in Rails 1.1 - Discussion of performance enhancements in rails 1.1.
• Rails performance and caching, Part 2 - A discussing of Rails performance using caching.
• Stefan Kaes - Rails Performance - RubyConf 2006 conference notes on the Rails Performance presentation given by Stefan Kaes.
• Stefen Kaes - Optimizing Rails - Another post on the Rails 2006 presentation by Stefan Kaes on Rails Performance.
• Rails performance with FastCGI and Apache - A blog post on performance with Apache.
• Rails Performance Tool Box - A list of tools that come in handy when optimizing a Ruby on Rails application, which include query analyzer, query trace, and mtop.
• Rails Caching Documentation - Documentation for action, page, and fragment caching.
• The effect of using Rails fragment caching - Goes over the performance boost of using fragment caching.

Rails Performance Tools

• Query Builder Plugin - Bypass the overhead of construct_finder_sql.
• QueryTrace Plugin - Helps to identify the location/caller of bad queries.
• MySQL Query Analyzer Rails Plugin - Helpful to analyze SQL queries.
• Rails Log Analyzer - Reads the Rails log files and exposes potential points of optimization.
• Railsbench - “A small collection of ruby and shell scripts which make measuring raw performance of rails apps a snap.

• Rails vs Django
• A series of Ruby on Rails (RoR) Slides - Part 2
• A series of Ruby on Rails (RoR) Slides - Part 1
• CakePHP vs Ruby on Rails
• Ruby on Rails misc resources

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