benchmarking_rake.rb

  desc "Perform some benchmarking against the production site"
  task :benchmark do
    puts "starting benchmarking"
    fork_and_print("ab -c 100 -t 130 -n 1000 -r http://site.com/")
    fork_and_print("ab -c 100 -t 130 -n 1000 -r http://site.com/contact")
    fork_and_print("ab -c 100 -t 130 -n 1000 -r http://site.com/documentation/how_it_works")
    fork_and_print("ab -c 100 -t 130 -n 1000 -r http://site.com/documentation/installt")
    Process.waitall
    puts "benchmarking complete"

  end



  def fork_and_print(cmd)
    pid = fork do
      results = `#{cmd}`
      puts results
    end
    
    pid
  end