Dave Elkins

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Here is a list of ruby tricks from RubyInside:

21 Ruby Tricks You Should Be Using In Your Own Code

It is a great list with some new tricks to make your ruby code better.

http://www.igvita.com/2008/05/13/load-balancing-qos-with-haproxy/

http://www.rorsecurity.info/2008/05/21/real-world-csrf-update-your-radiant-now/

http://www.igvita.com/2007/06/05/creating-javascript-widgets-in-rails/

Jim Neath has posted a good list of plugins for building Social Apps in Rails.  The list of plugins are very useful in any Rails app and I have used many of them.

http://jimneath.org/2008/04/25/building-a-social-network-site-in-rails/

There is a good article about CSRF Attacks at ROR Security.  It discusses a couple different ways that the attack can be executed and how to prevent these.

Here is the link: http://www.rorsecurity.info/2008/05/05/csrf-an-underestimated-attack-method/

A tip about subdomains and store_location: http://www.railspikes.com/2008/5/1/quick-tip-store_location-with-subdomains

http://www.bencurtis.com/archives/2007/12/painless-rails-action-caching-with-memcached/

http://nubyonrails.com/articles/about-this-blog-memcached

enjoy.

http://www.slashdotdash.net/articles/2007/12/03/rails-2-upgrade-notes

http://getahead.org/blog/joe/2007/10/29/web_application_security.html

http://www.rorsecurity.info/2007/10/28/restful_authentication-login-security/