Hulk is a ruby library that provides scalability and load testing, through siege.

Install Siege on the server you wish to perform the the hulking.

$ brew install siege

Install as a ruby gem, this requires ruby 1.9.3 and will install a binary to your system.

$ gem install hulk_smash

There are two things that Hulk is designed to test. Server Load and Scalability.

• 5 seconds
• 15 concurrent users
• http://localhost

Require the library, and create a new smasher.

require 'hulk_smash'
smasher = HulkSmash::Smasher.new
smasher = HulkSmash::Smasher.new 'https://myhost.com/hit_it', duration: '1m', method: :put, data: { foo: 'bar' }

smasher.run_load_test
# or
smasher.load_test = true
smasher.run

smasher.result.requests_per_second # => 1327.1 
smasher.result.avg_response_time # => 10

smasher.run_scalability_test
# or
smasher.run

smasher.result.requests_per_second # => 22.13 
smasher.result.avg_response_time # => 5

• 1 minute
• 100 concurrent users
• http://some_great_host/assets/scale-test.txt

smasher = HulkSmash::Smasher.new 'http://some_great_host/assets/page_to_test', duration: '1m', concurrent_users: 100

result = smasher.run_load_test
result.requests_per_second # => 477.38
result.avg_response_time # => 150

Create a test suite that asserts on response times and throughput. View the examples and integration specs for inspiration

The initial reason for writing this is so I can create a test suite written in ruby that tests http services notify me when we push a release that makes the services slow.

• Fork
• Branch for your topic / issue
• Make pull request with updated tests

Make the documentation better! I'd like to use Yardoc

Contribute some examples on how you use this.