In honor of RubyFringe and my love of Ruby, Rails and Open Source, i’m going to release a small Rails project I coded up on the boring airplane ride back from Las Vegas. Kawaii is like a script/console that runs in your web-browser. I’ve been using it for Forumwarz development and it’s worked great so far! Update: Kawaii is now hosted on Google Code. There is a discussion group and issue tracker there! ...
About a month ago I started using Scout to monitor Forumwarz from a performance standpoint. Scout can be very useful for finding performance bottlenecks in your Rails apps! If you set it up with the Ruby on Rails Request Monitoring plugin, it will email you all of the requests that are running slowly. I found this invaluable when debugging performance problems on the site. I was surprised to find out that selling items, for example, was by far the slowest thing you could do! I’d never received a single complaint about it, because the operation always finished in 5-6 seconds, but behind the scenes it was taxing the processor! ...
Here are the slides from our presentation at TSOT last night. We unfortunately had some technical difficulties and that meant a lot of the jokes in the beginning were completely messed up :( The topic was RJS and Forumwarz: A Love Hate Affair. We spend a little time introducing the game, then we talk about some of the issues we encountered having an interface heavy in RJS during periods of concurrency. ...