Please note that the performance figures are not an exact measure and need to be considered with these points in perspective. There might be scope for improving the performance of the application, as there was no performance tuning performed for the application. In addition, following points also need to be taken into account.
- Ruby VM: Ruby is right now an interpreted language. But a project (code name Rite) plans to make it byte compiled. This would improve the execution speed of Ruby based programs.
- Framework method tuning: The Rails framework has been around only for a little more than a year. Development is on profile various components especially Active Record and Helper methods. The tuning effort would further improve the performance of applications using Rails.
- Choice of web server: WebRick was used as the web server for this application. Apache and Lighttpd are the suggested web servers for better performance.
