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DHH wrote this: Myth #2: Rails is expected to crash 400 times/day – a response to a myth about Rails processes regularly needing restarts.
I’m a big Rails hacker, it’s 90% of what I’ve done for years. I’ve designed and developed these apps: Tiktrac, Ebiwrite, Helipad, Deadline, Loom and Reuters Real Estate, this blog, not to mention work for smaller clients I …
I recently posted my top 5 uses for Capistrano over at Helicoid Insider—including juicy code snippets!
I like Capistrano a lot. It’s now doing all kinds of things to ease my workflow, from backing up servers to providing me with detailed signup statistics for each of my web apps. Whilst I’m still the only developer designing and building 4 successful web apps I need all the help I can get, so I’ve naturally cobbled together a range of software techniques to help….
This is part 2 of the Rapid Rails series. Part 1 featured tips on how to work more efficiently with Rails by making the most of the bundled and related command line tools. This part discusses how to make your Rails application perform faster, with particular focus on server optimisation. Why? Because systems administration requires a very different skill set to programming, and I’ve been often been expected to manage sysadmin tasks on my Rails contracts—and I bet you have too!
I’ve included real-world e…
