Comments on: Speed up your Rails XML responses http://railsontherun.com/2010/02/22/speed-up-your-rails-xml-responses/ Rails experiments by Matt Aimonetti Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:05:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Magnus Holm http://railsontherun.com/2010/02/22/speed-up-your-rails-xml-responses/comment-page-1/#comment-1729 Magnus Holm Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:05:18 +0000 http://railsontherun.com/?p=1734#comment-1729 In my own mini-benchmarks I've actually found Erector to be even faster than Nokogiri, but YMMV. In my own mini-benchmarks I’ve actually found Erector to be even faster than Nokogiri, but YMMV.

]]> By: Matt Aimonetti http://railsontherun.com/2010/02/22/speed-up-your-rails-xml-responses/comment-page-1/#comment-1727 Matt Aimonetti Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:34:43 +0000 http://railsontherun.com/?p=1734#comment-1727 Jeremy, I'm just using a WP template I thought did not look too bad ;) I'll take your comment in consideration when/if I decide to make some modifications. @kieran cool, thanks for sharing your experience and sharing your link @jim Aaron is the man! Jeremy, I’m just using a WP template I thought did not look too bad ;) I’ll take your comment in consideration when/if I decide to make some modifications.

@kieran cool, thanks for sharing your experience and sharing your link

@jim Aaron is the man!

]]> By: Jeremy Lecour http://railsontherun.com/2010/02/22/speed-up-your-rails-xml-responses/comment-page-1/#comment-1726 Jeremy Lecour Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:27:07 +0000 http://railsontherun.com/?p=1734#comment-1726 Hi Matt, Thanks for sharing this. I'm going to be in the same kind of situation where I'll have to serve some quite big xml chunks a bunch of times per minutes/hours. Since Nokogiri is already in use in my app, it's going to be a good bonus. NB : about your html template on the commenting section, the spec recommends not to substitute input labels by placeholder (a hint for what to type in). I know it's more concise in the majority of cases, but it's less accessible. It's from the HTML5 spec about placeholders, but I guess the reason can be applied to default values in plain old (x)html. http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-placeholder-attribute Hi Matt,

Thanks for sharing this. I’m going to be in the same kind of situation where I’ll have to serve some quite big xml chunks a bunch of times per minutes/hours. Since Nokogiri is already in use in my app, it’s going to be a good bonus.

NB : about your html template on the commenting section, the spec recommends not to substitute input labels by placeholder (a hint for what to type in). I know it’s more concise in the majority of cases, but it’s less accessible. It’s from the HTML5 spec about placeholders, but I guess the reason can be applied to default values in plain old (x)html.
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-placeholder-attribute

]]> By: Jim Neath http://railsontherun.com/2010/02/22/speed-up-your-rails-xml-responses/comment-page-1/#comment-1725 Jim Neath Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:24:17 +0000 http://railsontherun.com/?p=1734#comment-1725 Major kudos to Aaron. He also has the greatest named plugin, Wank. Major kudos to Aaron.

He also has the greatest named plugin, Wank.

]]> By: Kieran P http://railsontherun.com/2010/02/22/speed-up-your-rails-xml-responses/comment-page-1/#comment-1724 Kieran P Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:07:35 +0000 http://railsontherun.com/?p=1734#comment-1724 We converted our feeds to use Nokogiri some time ago (11 months or so). The speed boosts where incredible. You can find the full details at http://kete.lighthouseapp.com/projects/14288/tickets/177-tags-list-rss-feed-increasingly-slower Points 1-3 of the first comment should help get people started. The syntax is not that different from Builder, so it was fairly easy to convert them. On the feed we where having troubles with, we saw a 91.16x speed boost. That's from 36.3 seconds for 2 requests, to just 1.8 seconds page load for 10 requests. Rails 3 would really benefit from switching out Builder with Nokogiri! We converted our feeds to use Nokogiri some time ago (11 months or so). The speed boosts where incredible. You can find the full details at http://kete.lighthouseapp.com/projects/14288/tickets/177-tags-list-rss-feed-increasingly-slower

Points 1-3 of the first comment should help get people started. The syntax is not that different from Builder, so it was fairly easy to convert them.

On the feed we where having troubles with, we saw a 91.16x speed boost. That’s from 36.3 seconds for 2 requests, to just 1.8 seconds page load for 10 requests.

Rails 3 would really benefit from switching out Builder with Nokogiri!

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