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Now that Rails 2.0 is officially released, we have updated our Rails instrumentation layer to work seamlessly with the latest version of the framework. If you are already using RM-Manage you shouldn’t hesitate to install the Rails monitoring plugin and start monitoring your application. If you’re interested in monitoring the performance of your Rails application (and the infrastructure on which it runs), and you haven’t yet tried RM-Manage, you should definitely check out a free, no-obligation trial. It’s a simple, affordable way to get an in-depth view into the performance of your Rails application, identify bottlenecks, and optimize for performance.

For internal testing purposes we have created a new Rails 2.0 application called Megaphone. We’ll talk more about this application in another blog post but I want to quickly explain how I installed the Rails instrumentation plugin.

Here is the svn command I executed from the root directory of the Megaphone application:

demo:~/megaphone$ svn export --username demo \
  http://svn.fiveruns.com/svn/public/fiveruns/tags/1.0.2 \
  vendor/plugins/fiveruns
Authentication realm: <http://svn.fiveruns.com> FiveRuns Subscribers
Password for 'demo': 
...

In the FiveRuns console I then enabled this application for Rails monitoring. Once I started the application with the new plugin I could immediately see how it performed on our server. Simple.

Many times, new applications can contain unforeseen performance bottlenecks. Organizations all over the world are using RM-Manage to identify and resolve these issues. Using the above example, we’ll post soon about how we improved Megaphone with insights gained through RM-Manage.

If performance matters for your Rails applications, you can easily test drive RM-Manage with our free 30 day trial. We look forward to helping you make Rails run faster.