Rails Simpler Bench

Are you looking for a comprehensive, real-world benchmark to show the performance of a large, highly-concurrent Ruby on Rails application? You're probably looking for Rails Ruby Bench. But RRB is unfortunately large and unwieldy - it's a real-world benchmark with lots of dependencies and messiness. The easiest way to run it is to build an AWS image and run it in a dedicated virtual machine. While RRB does what it can to be repeatable, it has some strong limits due to concurrency - the behavior of thread interaction can be highly unpredictable.

As well, RRB is based on Discourse, a real-world production application. This makes it hard to change Rails (and sometimes Ruby) versions, and it requires the benchmark to be fairly messy -- it has to follow the evolution of a real-world solution to real-world (unrelated to the benchmark) problems.

RRB's strengths and weaknesses are easy to sum up in the same sentence: it embraces and measures as much real-world complexity as it reasonably can.

Would you like a much-simplified Ruby on Rails benchmark with fewer dependencies and more repeatability? Then RSB may be for you.

Usage

TODO

• Set up SQLite in-memory database
• Composite routes based on Discourse and CodeTriage