In this screencast we take a look at the evolution of a database heavy Rails application. We learn how you might grow the app initially using vertical scaling and then move to horizontal scaling with Replication using the Masochism plugin. Lastly we cover a few other good uses of Replication …
Presented at the Ruby Meet Up by Yehuda Katz. Yehuda will walk you through some of the new features in Rails 3, including how Rails has become significantly more modular, making it easier than ever to replace a part of Rails with an equivalent component.
Rails & Sinatra apps can now be deployed to Google’s infrastructure. We will introduce some of our latest tools for developing JRuby apps for Google App Engine, and highlight the Ruby APIs.
Ruby on Rails is not just for creating applications that serve desktop-powered browsers. The framework is also great for creating mobile applications running on everything from the iPhone to more conventional mobile devices. See how. Conference given by David Heinemeier Hansson who is the creator of the web-application framework Ruby …
This is the second of two episodes where we learn the basics of Load Testing our web applications. In this episode we take a look at autobench, a tool that automates our httperf load tests, then we’ll figure out how to visualize our httperf results in a graph, and finally …
One way to measure the scalability of your Rails application is to use Load Testing. This is the first of two screencasts where we attempt to give an introduction to load testing and show how to use two of the most basic Load Testing tools, Apache Bench and httperf. http://railslab.newrelic.com/2009/06/23/episode-15-load-testing-part-1