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  • Justin Gehtland is back with numbers to back it up

    Justin Gehtland is back with numbers to back up his original claim that “Rails is actually faster” for his application than the Java/Spring/Hibernate/JSTL stack powered version was. Through various benchmarks, he...

  • Exploring Ruby on Rails in a conversation

    Ara Howard and Doug Fales has a great article on Linux Journal exploring Rails through a conversation. They talk about how thinks work building a small blog engine and touches...

  • Moved to a brand new dedicated server

    The terror reign of intermittent MySQL errors has ended. We moved to a brand new dedicated server this morning thanks once again to the kind crew at TextDrive. UPDATE: The...

  • O'Reilly's CTO praises Rails to the chocolate skies

    Rael Dornfest seems to be having a chocolate good time digging into the crunchy Rails. As the Chief Technology Officer at O’Reilly Media, he certainly has a good touch with...

  • Scaling the productivity gains on larger projects

    Evan Rabble is the lead developer on the forthcoming podcasting portal Odeo. He’s being working with Rails for some time now and has just done a write-up on how the...

  • Reasonable expectations on a $12 plan

    It’s great to see so many Railers sign up with TextDrive. They’re a great host and I’m happy to be associated with them. But unfortunately, it appears that there’s some...

  • Production Log Analyzer: Find slow pages

    Eric Hodel has released the Production Log Analyzer: The Production Analyzer lets you find out which pages on your site are dragging you down. pl_analyze requires the use of SyslogLogger...

  • Going to the good video store

    Josh C from the Eggplant Coop sent me the funniest switcher quote I’ve seen in a while: We compare moving to rails from our in-house perl web framework to the...

  • Verifying encoding approach to Action Mailer

    If you’re deep into all the RFCs on email, we’d like your help ensuring that the latest approach to encoding with Action Mailer is sound. We’re going for an approach...

  • Brian McCallister to be preset Rails at ApacheCon

    Under the session title of Cheap, Fast, and Good: You can have it all with Ruby on Rails, Brian McCallister will be presented at ApacheCon Europe 2005. The session will...