Ways to Improve RoR Application Performance

There are two chief factors that affects the performance of the application, first is the database size and second is the structure of the application. Identification of factors that can adversely affect the performance of the application and sorting techniques and architectural solutions that can improve the performance is very crucial. Some of the prime factors affecting ruby on rails applications are:


lOping for a slow session container

lUsing inefficient helpers methods

lExecution of tasks on request basis and not on calling basis

lWider database

lWhile processing requests use of similar computation. 

If Ruby on rails developer in india  focus on all the problematic areas discussed above, then you can manage to minimize its occurrence and can improve the performance to a drastic extent.       


Ruby on Rails framework has several in built session containers. Among all, the two widely used containers are PStore and ActiveRecordStore. PStore stores information in separate file, whereas, ActiveRecordStore information directly in the database. Both these containers considerably slow down when pages are cached and this adversely affect the performance of the application.        


Now lets take a look on the solution, there are two effective alternatives of these containers, they are MemCacheStore and SQLSessionStore. These alternatives successfully maintain their speed even in the cached pages, this ultimately leads yo faster execution of the proposed codes and thus better performance. One very important thing that need to be considered is that, one should avoid using class level caching is they use similar data repeatedly for a single request processing.