PS. On average each request is about 3000ms to 5000ms when being served by RoR (authlogic/paperclip), as opposed to about 160ms for the same content but put directly under /public. I'm using mongrel.
On Dec 16, 4:22 pm, greghauptmann <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
