tourbus in 3 steps

tourbus.bash

# Crush your website in 3 easy steps with TourBus!

# 1. get tourbus. Latest isn't in rubygems yet.
# If you don't have bundler, make sure you have the reqs.
git clone https://github.com/dbrady/tourbus.git &&
cd tourbus &&
bundle install &&
gem build tourbus.gemspec &&
gem install tourbus-2.0.0.gem

# 2. write a simple tour to touch your website
cd $your_project_dir
mkdir tours && cd tours
echo 'class Sample < Tourist
  def tour_zed
    visit "http://zedshaw.com:6767/tests/sample.html"
    assert_contain "hi there"
  end
end' > sample.rb

cd ..
tourbus

# should run 1 tourist 1 time through that page

# 3. drop a train on em, Edgar. 100 tourists each doing 10 laps
tourbus -n 10 -c 100

For best results use JRuby, which has real threads.

For the most painless gem setup, get rvm and then do this first:

rvm install jruby
rvm use jruby
rvm gemset create tourbus
rvm gemset use tourbus
cd tourbus
gem install bundler
bundle install