Rails Performance Article
Just briefly following up on my earlier post on efficient Ruby programming by mentioning this good article on Rails performance by Stefan Kaes posted last year on InfoQ.
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Interesting Links Thanksgiving Edition
Bamboo blog has some good tips on database optimization for Rails apps. Adam Keys on creating micro-apps using existing infrastructure and APIs like Foamee does with Twitter. Good presentation on application interface design.. New Rails restful help with the plugin resource_this. 40 design books from Smashing Magazine. Oracle has built a JRuby application Oracle Mix.
Rails Slicehost Install On Ubuntu
I did an install of Ruby, Rails, MySQL, Mongrel Cluster and Nginx on Slicehost over the weekend and found the following resources to be excellent. The whole experience was eerily easy. Probably shouldn’t even write that in order not to alert the environment demons. Anyway, I decided not to use the deprec gem as I [...]
A Ruby Alternative to Rails
Could be a nice full stack if development moves forward on all fronts. I definitely like all three choices: Merb, DataMapper and JQuery. However, opinionated software aside, I’m not I sure really always agree with limiting choices in a stack and prefer Merb’s built-in ORM agnosticism. I haven’t checked out Sinatra or Camping yet, but [...]
Upgrading MySQL on Leopard
I had some fun recently when I attempted an upgrade to the latest MySQL after installing Leopard. Here are some links that I found helpful in case anyone out there happens to stumble upon my site while enduring the same: Starting MySQL. Fix for MySQL. Both postings link to myriad other postings in case you’re [...]
Socially-Conscious Networking
The Rails community has social networking sites as well as socially-conscious sites. Does anyone know of any sites where the two meet? Or does these communities form de-facto in social networking sites?
The Case of the Missing Rails Books
Dear Oreilly, As an avid book buyer, I’m writing to inquire as to the whereabouts of Programming Rails and Rails in A Nutshell. I wonder what the Jruby folks would say?. (Or maybe I don’t have to wonder?) Guess this gives me more time to finish my Erlang book. Thanks.
Mongrel and Leopard OS X
Just an fyi: Mongrel 1.0.3 and the new Leopard OS X both landed on about the same day. If you recently upgraded and you’re running all of your Rails stuff using local settings as opposed to relying upon the Rails stuff in the base Leopard install, you’ll need to upgrade to the latest Xcode in [...]