[LRUG] Load testing a rails app

[Elise Huard]

for my part:
- ab for single pages
- +1 for tsung if more complex scenarios, really easy

On 2 May 2012 09:10, Lee Henson <lee.m.henson at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've tried loadUI in the past:
>
> http://www.loadui.org/
>
> Cons:
>
> - buggy
> - ran like a arthritic dog
> - docs were very thin on the ground for such a complex piece of software
>
> Pros:
>
> - you build a test scenario by plugging together various components
> using 'virtual wires' (if you've used or seen Propellerheads' Reason
> before you'll dig it straight away). this is cool.
>
> So, in summary, it didn't work but I had fun doing it.
>
> On 2 May 2012 09:52, David Burrows <david at designsuperbuild.com> wrote:
>> +1 for Blitz.io for single page stuff
>> Siege (http://www.joedog.org/siege-home/) has a simple way to load test a
>> sequence of urls using a url.txt file, have generated these files with a few
>> lines of Ruby in the past
>>
>> Haven't used it but RubyRogues podcast mentioned Tourbus the other
>> day https://github.com/dbrady/tourbus/
>> "TourBus is an intelligent website load testing tool. Allows for complicated
>> testing scenarios including filling out forms, following redirects, handling
>> cookies, and following links–all of the things you’d normally associate with
>> a regression suite or integration testing tool. The difference is that
>> TourBus also scales concurrently, and you can perform hundreds of
>> complicated regression tests simultaneously in order to thoroughly load test
>> your website."
>>
>>
>> --
>> David Burrows
>> 079 1234 2125
>> @dburrows
>>
>> http://www.designsuperbuild.com/ | @dsgnsprbld
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Hamza Khan-Cheema <hamzakc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Thanks for all the advice on load testing tools.  I think I am leaning
>>> towards a combination of tsung and New Relic for extracting the stats.  As a
>>> bonus we can also throw in some XMPP traffic as well. I still need to read a
>>> up a bit more on it though.
>>>
>>> Kind Regards
>>> Hamza Khan-Cheema
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