RailsLab .:. Scaling Rails - Scaling Rails Screencasts
Learn everything you need to know about Scaling your Rails app through 13 informative Screencasts produced by Gregg Pollack with the support of New Relic.
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Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: 12 Things We Learned the Hard Way - Axon Flux - A Ruby on Rails Blog
There are a bunch of basic functional elements to building out a popular Rails app that I've never really seen explained in one place, but we had to learn the hard way while building Posterous.
whenever: Installing cron jobs only for a given Rails environment or Capistrano stage
We use the whenever gem to automatically update the crontab of the servers we deploy to. By default, whenever will update all servers with a matching role ([we use the :cron role ](https://makandracards.com/m...
Passenger ignores RailsEnv directive for Rails 3 applications
You might find that your Passenger ignores all RailsSomething directives in the vhost for your new Rails 3 application. The culprit is a file config.ru which makes Passenger consider your application a Rack (non-Rails) application.
To fix thi...
Railscheck project home page
This project is (or will be) a best effort semi-static verifier for your Ruby on Rails projects. Delivered as a Ruby gem it provides a shell command task "railscheck" that you can run against your Rails projects to test for a number of typical bug...
Alex Payne — Node and Scaling in the Small vs Scaling in the Large
...you can apply every available anti-pattern and still come out the other end with a workable system, simply because the hardware can move faster than your bad decision-making.
Heroku | How it Works
Heroku's architecture enables deployment with nothing but Git. Deployment is fast, simple, and just works – all you do is push code to your repo on Heroku.
Disable Rails XSS protection in ActionMailer views
This might eventually be fixed by Rails itself.\
Right now this is the way to have the rails_xss plugin not escape the body of ActionMailer mails.
Put this into config/initializers/mailers_without_rails_xss.rb:
Speed up Capistrano deployments using a remote cached copy of repository
You can seriously speed up deployments with Capistrano when using a local git repository on the server you are deploying to.
Simply add
set :deploy_via, :remote_cache
set :copy_exclude, [ '.git' ]
to your config/deploy.rb and Capistr...
markbates/coffeebeans
When CoffeeScript was added to Rails 3.1 they forgot one very important part, the ability to use it when responding to JavaScript (JS) requests!
In Rails 3.1 it’s incredibly easy to build your application’s JavaScript using CoffeeScript, however ...