[LRUG] Load testing Rails apps

[Alan Buxton]

Hi all

 

I've really enjoyed the recent debates on startup employment ethics and UK
tax law. That might read a bit sarcastic but seriously they have been
interesting.

 

So it feels a bit strange to make a tech posting to the list . but here
goes. It's an echo of a previous question that instigated the e-petitions
team coming in to talk to LRUG last week. I really the enjoyed the talk and
was totally inspired by Alan Thomas's jmeter piece to have a look at jmeter.
The load/performance testing I do is either (a) manual, (b) based on looking
for weaknesses using something like New Relic or (c) uses proprietary tools.
So an open source option sounded great.

 

A quick look at jmeter though and it says that it doesn't execute
javascript. This is at the same time that Rails apps seem to be using more
and more javascript. Github, for example, seems to be deciding that my Rails
apps are written in Javascript rather than Ruby.

 

So some questions:

1.       Does it matter that jmeter doesn't execute javascript?

2.       What other open source tools are there out there that are worth
looking at?

 

Best


Alan

 

 

 

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