Hi, I'm serving files (text, images) to a browser via my Rails application as the user needs to be authenticated too. The files are on file system, however references are in the database, as I'm using PAPERCLIP. Using AUTHLOGIC for authentication. I'm finding the response times aren't good, as each request for HTML/image etc have to go through the Rails layers I guess of AUTHLOGIC, PAPERCLIP then stream back.
QUESTION: Given I want users to authenticate for HTML & associated files (CSS, images) then page needs, is there any obvious way to get an order of magnitude improvement? E.G. a) I guess I could save in session state the list of children files a HTML page needs & get its file location path, until the subsequent requests come, and that would some a database lookup (at the expense of using session state)? b) is there a way to keep open a TCP session or something for the entire web-page load? (clutching at straws here) c) any way to stream all html & images/css as one file/stream to browser? (I assume not as this isn't how the browser works) d) Combine Javascript into one file (I've heard of this one and can follow up) e) Set future expiry headers on files (I've heard of this one and can follow up) Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
