File Uploads in Merb versus Rails2007-10-02 At FiveRuns, we have a set of installed clients which upload data to our service periodically. Because of the way it is implemented, Rails is quite slow in handling file uploads. Merb is an alternative, albeit much simpler, stack to Rails which handles file uploads in a much saner manner. The performance difference is quite large. Optimizations Merb -- turned off ActiveRecord, environme
