Speed Your Rails App with Model Caching using Redis

[Rafa_F]

While learning Rails, little emphasis is given on performance partly
because most of those tutorials are usually small applications with
minimal records. But as one progresses and starts handling huge apps,
performance becomes critical. Optimizing queries and handling
bottlenecks such as N + 1 query problem tops todo list…

Check out more on this tutorial by following the link
http://www.victorareba.com/tutorials/speed-your-rails-app-with-model-caching-using-redis

[areba_b]

I’d like to toss in the gem bullet, which we’ve begun using in one of
our
apps, that shows database queries that are slow and how to speed them
up.

That said, I still have to give Knuth’s remark: “Premature optimisation
is
the root of all evil.” Basically: don’t start optimising until you have
something to actually measure and tune.