[LRUG] Load testing a rails app

[thomas pomfret]

I normally use tsung (http://tsung.erlang-projects.org/), you can rerun
tests, although unfortunately you need to write them in XML.

There's normally only a few relevant bits to change however, so I normally
just copy an existing conf and change.

You can run this from your local machine, although if running a proper
test, I normally boot up a few ec2 machines and run a few simultaneously.

Thomas

On 1 May 2012 10:26, Tom Blomfield <tom at gocardless.com> wrote:

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> On Tuesday, 1 May 2012 at 10:16, Hamza Khan-Cheema wrote:
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> Hi.
>
> Just a quick question on what tools people use to load test their Rails
> apps?
>
> I have used JMeter in the past and I am not very impressed with it (have
> you tried to undo a command with it?). One problem I had with it which is a
> show stopper is that it can't rerun the same test to compare the results if
> you are using the random selectors in JMeter. The idea is that you want it
> to randomly select which link to click on and which path to take then
> record that and retest with the random path. That way when you make a
> change you can be sure that it is random and that it had a effect or not. I
> have briefly looked at httperf by HP. Has anyone had any success in using
> this or other tools? I know there are web apps out there, but I would like
> a tool we can use internally.
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> Thanks.
>
> Kind Regards
> Hamza Khan-Cheema
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