Rage: Fast web framework compatible with Rails

1. FrameworkBenchmarks

   1 395 7,824 9.9 C++

   Source for the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project

   

   There is certainly a lot of speculation in Techempower benchmarks and top entries can utilize questionable techniques like simply writing a byte array literal to output stream instead of constructing a response, or (in the past) DB query coalescing to work around inherent limitations of the DB in case of Fortunes or DB quries.

   And yet, the fastest Ruby entry is at 274th place while Rails is at 427th.

   https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#hw=ph&test=fortune&s...

2. Judoscale

   judoscale.com featured

   Save 47% on cloud hosting with autoscaling that just works. Judoscale integrates with Rails, Sidekiq, Solid Queue, and more to make autoscaling easy and reliable. Save big, and say goodbye to request timeouts and backed-up job queues.

   

3. rage

   2 7 1,058 9.3 Ruby

   Fast web framework compatible with Rails. (by rage-rb)

   

4. Iodine

   3 2 936 1.8 C

   iodine - HTTP / WebSockets Server for Ruby with Pub/Sub support (by boazsegev)

   

   Most of the speed I believe is from using the server iodine https://github.com/boazsegev/iodine which is a wrapper around facil.io https://facil.io that is built using C.

5. facil.io

   4 8 2,284 2.5 C

   Your high performance web application C framework

   

   Most of the speed I believe is from using the server iodine https://github.com/boazsegev/iodine which is a wrapper around facil.io https://facil.io that is built using C.

6. Ruby on Rails

   5 538 56,793 10.0 Ruby

   Ruby on Rails

   

   Also this doesn't show how database access is handled which is the hard part. If you are not touching the database, you can run Rails on falcon and get fiber based concurrency.

   If you run falcon on rails and access database, then you have to explicitly checkin/checkout a connection to be safe. Details here - https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/42271.

7. pitchfork

   6 13 768 8.2 Ruby

   

8. intercooler-js

   7 14 4,785 4.7 HTML

   Making AJAX as easy as anchor tags

   

   I used HTMX since the intercooler days [0] but the stuff you can make is rather limited. Also you still need the JS to deal with a11y things like expanded state (or hyperscript, apparently).

   If you have a lot of components to implement, everything requires thinking.

   I really love it for simple applications though. Resist implementing a complicated menu, live notifications, an editable data-table and such non-web-native things and you can create the fastest CRUD app ever.

   And you will need another client, but that's not really an issue if your view model does not contain non-public data (it shouldn't), as you can convert it to JSON at the same endpoint and call it an API.

   [0]: https://intercoolerjs.org/

9. InfluxDB

   influxdata.com featured

   InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

   

10. realworld

    8 128 81,475 7.3 TypeScript

    "The mother of all demo apps" — Exemplary fullstack Medium.com clone powered by React, Angular, Node, Django, and many more

    

    So what would be a better benchmark? Perhaps a "standard" "real world" app, like https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld

    Or something simpler?

11. async-http

    9 3 337 8.7 Ruby

    

12. crystal

    10 246 19,735 9.8 Crystal

    The Crystal Programming Language

    

    > It always puzzled me why Crystal didn't catch up?

    M:N wasn't added until late 2019 :( -- https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/pull/8112

13. hn-search

    11 2,025 555 2.9 TypeScript

    Hacker News Search

    

    Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

    You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

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