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Category Archives: Rails

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…

Fine tuning your garbage collector

Announcing Scrap

Monitoring Rails: Getting instant monitoring alerts

Mass inserting data in Rails without killing your performance

Re: Simple RoR+MySQL optimization

Powerful, easy, DRY, multi-format REST APIs

Hold the RJS, please.

Stupid attachment_fu tricks, part 1