Testing Various Configurations of Rails, Merb, Swiftiply, and Nginx

This article was removed from our archives as the data is outdated. In addition, testing Ruby frameworks against one another is not as relevant as looking at the overall architecture and understanding user behavior through Web analytics.

In practicality, most applications today are complex beasts. They incorporate some form of caching, integrate with third-party services for data and storage (e.g. Amazon’s S3), and may rely on event-driven client-side scripts to complete the user experience.

If you are interested in raw number performance, however, we suggest you look at infrastructure options. We recently profiled a few. Also, keep an eye on the still evolving Ruby-centric virtual machines (MRI 1.9, jRuby, Rubinius).