A gem for web services load testing?

Ruby
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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

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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.

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On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Alex S. [email protected] wrote:

Thanks,
Alex

In this video (Expressive Languages for the JVM - YouTube), starting at
24:40, Charles Oliver N. 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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Thanks for the pointer, Roger.

Also found this standalone script, which works as a quick & dirty way to
get up and running:

http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Re-Usable+Load+Testing+Example