Professional Ruby on Rails™

13.4. References

The most recent release of Railsbench was announced at https://railsexpress.de/blog/articles/2007/04/01/new-railsbench-release-0-9-2. Watch this blog for further updates. Also watch it for some interesting insights into Rails speed improvements, such as http://railsexpress.de/blog/articles/2005/11/06/the-case-for-piggy-backed-attributes. A tutorial on profiling Rails applications is available at http://cfis.savagexi.com/articles/2007/07/10/how-to-profile-your-rails-application.

Jason Hoffman's presentation on Rails performance is available at http://jxh.bingodisk.com/bingo/public/presentations/JHoffmanRailsConf-Berlin-Sept2007.pdf. There are a couple of different versions of this talk online, and this may have been updated by the time you read this.

You can find information on optimizing ActiveRecord from Bruce Tate at www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/wa-rails3/index.html?ca=drs. A similar look at Ajax is at www.thinkvitamin.com/features/ajax/5-ways-to-optimize-ajax-in-ruby-on-rails. A general look at improving Rails performance is at www.infoq.com/articles/Rails-Performance.

A good rundown of cookie sessions is available at http://blog.caboo.se/articles/2007/2/21/new-controversial-default-rails-session-storage-cookies. That blog also has other articles on Rails performance and scaling. Also, the Rails Envy team has a great overview of Rails caching at www.railsenvy.com/2007/2/28/rails-caching-tutorial.