You’ve built a cool new web application with Ruby on Rails (or similar framework) and released it to the world. Everything works as expected, but users are starting to complain about the app being too slow. And you’re starting to regret following that mantra about “premature optimization.”
Improving your web application’s performance can be a daunting task, but it’s an important factor in keeping users happy and productive. In this article, Jeremy Weiskotten presents strategies for identifying common performance problems in Rails applications and ways to fix them.


