how to measure page request time in milliseconds in a rails project?

Question

New to rails, want to test the time it takes for a given page to render in milliseconds.

Where in the request pipeline do I do this? (start and stop the time, and output to the page)

Answer 1

When you develop with WeBRICK or Mongrel, you should see this in the console:

Rendered layouts/application.html.erb (7.1ms)
Rendered members/index.html.erb within layouts/authed (184.8ms)
Completed 200 OK in 402ms (Views: 185.8ms | ActiveRecord: 26.2ms)

As you can see it says how long the request took to process the pages.