From: Mat Schaffer <schapht@...>
Date: 2006-12-22T07:08:12+09:00
Subject: Ruby replacement for ab?

So I've been hunting for a way to stress test a web application and  
haven't been terribly satisfied so far.

I'd really love something where I could define a script that  
determined the way an agent would behave.  Basically a set of  
requests where each request had the potential to use information  
contained in the return of a previous request.

My brain is slowly churning around the possibilities of putting  
ruby's benchmark.rb, mechanize, maybe drb to manage multiple test  
hosts....   Some sort of ruby DSL would be sweet.  But before I get  
too ahead of myself: Does anyone here know of a tool does this?

I'm looking at JMeter right now.  It at least allows for assertions  
on HTTP requests as part of an agent script, but I don't see any  
facility to do computations on the returned content from a previous  
request.

Thoughts?  Suggestions?

Thanks in advance,
Mat