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Last week I released the first of a three part series covering some of the newest libraries for helping you scale your Rails apps. Today I bring you part two of the series which starts with a discussion of this article from Sudara Williams. In the article Sudara talks about the true reason why Rails apps can start hogging memory, and then suggests three tools to help prevent this bloat. In this screencast I show you how to use rack-bug, memorylogic, and oink, the three tools he recommends.

Download this Episode – (49.5 MB, 10:21, MP4)

In this second episode I introduce three tools:

• rack-bug – Rails middleware which gives you an informative toolbar in your browser.
• memorylogic – Gives your logger a memory footprint.
• oink – Provides metrics on your worst memory bloated requests.

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Related posts:

1. Scaling Rails – On The Edge – Part 1
2. Scaling Rails – On The Edge – Part 3
3. Getting Started with the Rails 3 BugMash