Question

I need to run this php script http://db2express/imacs/radek/3.1/rationalTest.php?mode=create

The processing time is about 10mins or so and it streams out to the browser output of what it does. It’s creating and setting up and a database, creating indexes etc.

How can I measure how long it takes to process which means fully load this page?

I need to run the page from ruby. Also capture the output.

Answer 1

If you’re on a unix-like, you could just do

time curl "http://db2express/imacs/radek/3.1/rationalTest.php?mode=create" > output.html

If you really need to do it from ruby…

require 'open-uri'
require 'date'

url = "http://db2express/imacs/radek/3.1/rationalTest.php?mode=create"

start = Time.new
f = open(url).read
stop = Time.new

puts "Time elapsed: #{stop - start} seconds"
puts "The content of the file is:\n#{f}"