A gem for web services load testing?

[Alex Stahl]

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

 

[Roger Pack]

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.

http://ruby-toolbox.com/categories/browser_testing.html
http://github.com/dbrady/tourbus

 

[Alex Stahl]

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

 

[Josh Cheek]

[Note: parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]

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

In this video (

), starting at
24:40, Charles Oliver Nutter 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.