# Is flickr plugin that slow in rails?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-flickr-plugin-that-slow-in-rails/172381>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 20, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-flickr-plugin-that-slow-in-rails/172381 "2009-07-20T20:10:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-flickr-plugin-that-slow-in-rails/172381/1 "2009-07-20T20:10:40Z")

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Hi there,

I’m creating a little web app that do, among other stuff, a bit of  
flickr search.

The code is like this:

## VIEW

\<% form\_remote\_tag :url =\> {:action =\> ‘search’}, :update =\> ‘photos’,  
:complete =\> visual\_effect(:blind\_down, ‘photos’),  
:before =\> %(Element.show(‘spinner’)),  
:success =\> %(Element.hide(‘spinner’)) do %\>

\<%= image\_tag ‘spinner.gif’, :id =\> ‘spinner’, :style =\> ‘display: none’  
%\>

 Tags \<%= text\_field\_tag 'tags' %\> \<%= submit\_tag 'Search' %\> 

\<% end %\>

## CONTROLLER

flickr = Flickr.new ‘b715a2a59427bb1bbc91683af31877f5’  
render :partial =\> “photo”, :collection =\> flickr.photos(:tags =\>  
params[:tags], :licence =\>‘5’ , :per\_page =\> ‘24’, :sort =\>  
“interestingness-desc”)

## \_PHOTO.RHTML

![]()

So, it takes about 20 seconds for just showing 24 photos, is it normal?  
how could I speed this up? What it takes too much time in rendering each  
picture, but I don’t know how to fix that. This is what the server  
shows:

Rendered collect/\_photo (872.5ms)  
Rendered collect/\_photo (1024.3ms)  
Rendered collect/\_photo (968.2ms)  
Rendered collect/\_photo (853.9ms)  
Rendered collect/\_photo (826.3ms)  
Rendered collect/\_photo (926.4ms)  
Rendered collect/\_photo (851.0ms)  
Rendered collect/\_photo (841.1ms)  
Rendered collect/\_photo (855.3ms)  
Rendered collect/\_photo (976.2ms)  
Rendered collect/\_photo (876.9ms)  
Rendered collect/\_photo (840.0ms)  
Rendered collect/\_photo (939.1ms)  
Rendered collect/\_photo (934.9ms)  
Rendered collect/\_photo (836.2ms)  
Rendered collect/\_photo (870.8ms)  
Rendered collect/\_photo (861.1ms)  
Rendered collect/\_photo (850.7ms)  
Rendered collect/\_photo (846.0ms)  
Rendered collect/\_photo (861.6ms)  
Rendered collect/\_photo (848.5ms)  
Rendered collect/\_photo (827.8ms)  
Rendered collect/\_photo (950.1ms)  
Rendered collect/\_photo (893.2ms)

Any idea?