Performance Tuning
Once you’ve built an application, you’re likely to want to improve its performance. Ruby on Rails has several caching methods to help you. Sometimes, however, you need to modify the queries Active Record creates, or create manual ones, to improve performance. In any case, the first step is to analyze the application’s performance to determine where improvements are needed.
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The Rebuilding and Scaling of YellowPages.com
John Straw, chief software architect at YellowPages.com, gave an excellent talk at RailsConf about YellowPages' conversion to Rails. John's talk covered the scaling issues, but the talk was just as much about the process of successfully doing a big rewrite of a critical application at a large company. continue...
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RailsExpress.blog
Blog on Rails performance tuning, from the author of the railsbench gem.
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