Rails Application Performance

Rails
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I have recently finished a very small application in Rails. This
application can be found @ http://www.classifieds.org.in

Currently, I manage user view state using sessions. For example to hold
current city, current category etc. But the application appear to be
very slow.

Would it be good to store the user state in cookies, so that the
performance will be better?.

2

I would presume that using cookies could open you up to certain security
holes and additional programming confusion. Also, ROR is already
mainting
the “session” using cookies. The session is provided to you as a
construct
to avoid additional programming effort. You are kinda sidestepping that
by
using your own cookies.

I’m not sure but maybe ROR provides the ability to presist sessions so
they
don’t use too much memory.

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Jim
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On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Rails L. <

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On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Rails
List[email protected] wrote:

Currently, I manage user view state using sessions. For example to hold
current city, current category etc. But the application appear to be
very slow.

Would it be good to store the user state in cookies, so that the
performance will be better?.

What leads you to think your session management is the issue?

Have you used any performance analysis tools (e.g. New Relic)?

–
Hassan S. ------------------------ [email protected]
twitter: @hassan

4

I agree with hassan … while working on scrumpad(www,scrumpad.com) ,
next generation project management tool
for scrum we have use New Relic and we found that one very helpful.

you can use eager loading to get rid of extra generated query that
will help you
caching , at this moment ROR support various type of caching.

On Jul 21, 9:48 pm, Hassan S. [email protected]

5

I don’t think you should worry too much on performance until you
really need to.

I use New Relic too for youthsays.com. But you could there are others
you could try out. Checkout
#161 Three Profiling Tools - RailsCasts
for more tutorial on other tools

Cheers!
Arzumy