Ebook: Ruby Performance Optimization: Why Ruby Is Slow, and How to Fix It

You don't have to accept slow Ruby or Rails performance. In this comprehensive guide to Ruby optimization, you'll learn how to write faster Ruby code - but that's just the beginning. See exactly what makes Ruby and Rails code slow, and how to fix it. Alex Dymo will guide you through perils of memory and CPU optimization, profiling, measuring, performance testing, garbage collection, and tuning. You'll find that all those “hard” things aren't so difficult after all, and your code will run orders of magnitude faster.