Lightweight Web Load Testing Tool with Curl and Ruby

I have developed a simple web load testing tool using Curl. It is written in Ruby, but you don't have to know much Ruby to use it.

First you model your visitors in some file, e.g., load_test.rb:

visitor "Viewer" do
  stores_cookies

  site_url "http://mysite"

  get "/"
  post "/login", {:login => 'guest', :password => 'hello-world'}
  post "/list"
  get "/"
end

visitor "Poster" do
  stores_cookies

  site_url "http://mysite"

  get "/"
  post "/login", {:login => 'user', :password => 'hello'}
  post "/list"
  post "/submit", {
    :image => {:type => :file, :data => 'picture.png'},
    'category' => 58
  }, :multipart => true
end

Then you call

ruby runner.rb load_test Poster 10 Viewer 20 -t 60

which loads your definition, creates 10 Poster and 20 Viewer, and executes them for 60 seconds. After it runs, it'll run and give you some report.