Tag Archives: ruby

Tasty Links / April 2009

A collection of interesting and useful stuff that I collected during March - April. I’ve added a few comments to things that I’ve tried out or looked at further…

Ruby GC Tuning - handy GC tuning info with performance notes from Evan W. at Twitter. I adjusted part of Rav and got big response […]

Running Rails

Another dry sysadmin/deployment related post. If any of you Ravelry people want to hear about something in particular, please leave a comment

A few quick notes about how I’m actually running my app:

Web server : nginx. I ran Apache for a while before I switched to nginx. Nginx uses far less resources under load […]

Why Ruby on Rails?

In this post: why Ruby? why Rails? why not? It sort of fizzles out at the end.

First - a quick definition. What is Ruby on Rails? Ruby is a programming language. Ruby on Rails is a framework for developing modern, database driven web-based apps that is written in Ruby. To grossly generalize - […]