Presentation: How to Avoid Hanging Yourself with Rails
How to Avoid Hanging Yourself with Rails from rowanhick.com
Some points following on from this:
- YMMV, times were produced using a consistent dataset, results are going to be all over the place dependent on columns, table size, indexes, ordering etc etc.
- By testing with real (/faked) data, you can avoid (to some degree) the premature optimisation problem, you’ll see what your app is going to perform like closer to a real world production environment.
- Word on the street is Datamapper + Merb is wickedly fast, I’m going to run a test with the same dataset just to see what the difference is like
- There were no MySQL optimisations preformed, just a vanilla MySQL install.
- I’m not being negative on the core team about the select/include problem, it’s a hard problem to fix, I’m just making people aware of it so you can save the banging-of-head-on-desk problem others of us have suffered.
- If the presentation bored you to tears, you know it all already, live in Toronto, and are bored in your job – we may have a position for you. Talk to me…
