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Fine tuning your garbage collector

If you’re familiar with Ruby at all, you know that it can be a little wacky when it comes to memory usage. Most of us have observed a Mongrel/Passenger instance that starts out small and then grows by leaps and bounds, eventually settling on some uncomfortably high number. We’re going to fix that with Ruby Enterprise Edition and Scrap.
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Quick tip: Strip URLs before parsing!

Announcing Scrap

Things to do when upgrading to Rails 2.3

Monitoring Rails: Getting instant monitoring alerts

Installing the fauna libmemcached gem on Fedora Core 6

Syntactic sugar will occassionally kick your puppies.

Powerful, easy, DRY, multi-format REST APIs: Part 2

Graceful degredation: Using Gravatar as a fallback avatar with Paperclip

Desuckifying Experts-Exchange