Best way to stress test a rails web app?

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Andykiteman picture Andykiteman · Nov 23, 2008 · Viewed 14.2k times · Source

Are there any good (preferably free) tools out there?

Can they give accurate estimates that reflect production results when the app goes live?

Answer

Matt Smith picture Matt Smith · Jan 6, 2012

I would personally go with Apache Bench http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/programs/ab.html

It's free, straight forward to use and lightweight.

If you are looking for a something a little more robust then I think Apache JMeter might be worth looking at. http://jmeter.apache.org/. Again, it's free, a bit of a learning curve and has a GUI so a little heavier.

You might also want to take a look at this Q/A Performing a Stress Test on Web Application?

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