thanks - so I do want to have the images etc authenticated as well by the way, so this is why I haven't got them under public either...
so the two test scenarios are based on doing a "save as" from a website, and then: (a) saving the web content directly under /public - which runs fast (b) having the content in a protected area, and then having rails serve it up via a controller - again that does (a) authentication via authlogic and then (b) serves via paperclip which stores files on disk, however there is a look to the database to find out where the file is I'm not sure how to attach the images here, however the results basically show that on average, picking some of the images/css etc that the browser fetches: * a ~10kb javascript file: 10ms => 497ms * a 1kb image: 5ms => 29ms . . This is measured from a browser running on the same server as the ./ script/server -e production, mongrel server... On Dec 16, 5:18 pm, Andrew Pace <andrewpp...@gmail.com> wrote: > I believe that paperclip actually stores a copy of the images in the > public directory by default. Once the html is rendered to the browser > the image requests should not go through the rails stack. > > Let us know what firebug says. Browser load times are dependent on > many factors, and often the rails stack is not the slowest piece of > the pie. Once you prove there is some evidence that rails is > significantly slowing you down, then it would be worth trying to > optimize it. But minimizing javascript, css, and images often has a > more profound effect on browser load times. Then caching pages, > actions, etc helps immensely too. > > Let us know the firebug or safari browser load time for each part of > the http requests. > > Andrew -- 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 rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
