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 time [...]
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 [...]
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 – the [...]
