Dive into the archives.
- Getting Down to the Metal
Rails Metal looks pretty darn awesome. It allows you to specify specific URI paths which will bypass the normal Rails stack, shaving precious milliseconds off your responses and not making the Baby Jesus cry.
As a byproduct with a simple config item, you can start using Rack::Cache which is a very good HTTP cache that [...]
- topics.latimes.com
We launched something officially this week, http://topics.latimes.com. It actually went out mid-December but it isn’t official until it was linked to from the main Entertainment section, which was given a facelift in case you didn’t notice.
- NFL Playoffs start today
Most of you might already know that but the New York Times have put together a nice site which breaks down the various pieces in the games. Looking at the Pro Football section of the site though, you don’t see any mention of it. I found out about it because I follow Jacob [...]
- Vendor/Gems and Rake
Today, I hit a little bump along the road of having a nice, simple checkout/run path in the Rails project I’m working on. The problem occurs when you don’t have a gem installed on the system, instead unpacking it into vendor/gems. In order for those to be included in the environment, you need [...]
- Creating a Web Framework with Conventions
Joe Gregorio has an awesome post detailing the work needed to create a Web framework with some very nice conventions.
They key point of adding ‘conventions’ is to take a load off the user. You need to actually remove two kinds of load, cognitive and manual. Cognitive load is the number of concepts you need to [...]
- Some Random Ruby / Rails Goodness
Here’s a few Ruby / Rails things I’ve seen around the Web the last few days. All are pretty cool…
Evan Weaver shows off some MySQL configurations for Rails.
Ilya Grigorik creates a simple RSS aggregator in 26 lines of Ruby code.
Here’s a custom Mongrel handler to create an XML-RPC server. I’ve been digging a [...]
- Conditional Association Loading
Obie shows a very cool way to handle ActiveRecord loading an Association Proxy. By overriding the loaded? method, you can include business logic to automatically return true that the proxy was loaded instead of hitting the database.
Obie uses the example of not creating the association proxy for a neighborhood when the population of the [...]
- The Rise of Mini-Apps
I’ve had Dave Thomas’ post about REST and the RADAR architecture open in one of my tabs since it was published a few weeks ago. I kept meaning to blog about it since it seemed very insightful with regards to the uses of REST as well as challenges ahead.
One issue that needs to be [...]
- Advanced Rails Training
I’m sitting in my hotel room in Dallas, waiting to meet the other folks from work who are here for the Advanced Rails training put on by The Pragmatic Studio. Definitely should be a fun week!
- Scaling Twitter, the Talk
I have a feeling this presentation by Blaine Cook will be the most attended session at the upcoming Silicon Valley Ruby Conference.
More thoughts on the whole Twitter / Rails thing:Friction(less) Rails
Twitter: Service vs. Platform
Twitter, Rails, Seaside, Respect
Rails and Scaling with Multiple DatabasesThere are some more but I’m saving those for a longer post.
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