From: Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Date: 2010-09-09T12:47:39+09:00
Subject: Re: A gem for web services load testing?

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On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Alex Stahl <astahl@hi5.com> wrote:

> Hi Folks - I've been developing automated functional tests in ruby for
> our website for the last few months, and now need to expand my scope.
>
> Before I hit google, can anyone recommend a gem which can perform load
> testing on a REST API?  I realize I could probably build my own w/
> mechanize + threading of some kind, but that seems like it'd be a lot of
> work, and I don't want to solve a problem that's already been solved.
>
> Any suggestions are appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
>
>
In this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlsD2FiBIbg), starting at
24:40, Charles Oliver Nutter shows an example of how he uses JRuby to scale
Rails. He does his load tests with a program called ab. Which, when I
request manpages for it, it says it's the "Apache HTTP server benchmarking
tool". That sounds pretty promising, maybe look into it.

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