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Monthly Archives: December 2009

Eight tips for getting the most out of your Rails app

Rails does an awful lot to optimize page generation, but there are a number of hacks, tweaks, and usage patterns you should be using to get the most out of your app.
Configuration tweaks
There’s a lot of the Rails stack that’s written in Ruby, which is great – it’s portable, it’s flexible, it works out of [...]

When you have to store user passwords…

Multibyte string slicing for fun and profit

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