Dave Elkins

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Good post about a possible issue with Passenger, Interlock, Cache Fu and Memcached
http://plasti.cx/2010/02/03/getting-passenger-to-play-nice-with-interlock-cache_fu-and-memcached

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SafeBuffers by Katz – http://yehudakatz.com/2010/02/01/safebuffers-and-rails-3-0
New Validation Methods by lindsaar.net – http://lindsaar.net/2010/1/31/validates_rails_3_awesome_is_true
rails-upgrade plugin by omgboglol – http://omgbloglol.com/post/364624593/rails-upgrade-is-now-an-official-plugin

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http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2009/12/subdomains-and-sessions-to-the-rescue/

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http://www.taylorluk.com/articles/2009/08/12/hey-pac-man-sup-subdomains

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http://blog.new-bamboo.co.uk/2009/8/14/block-helpers

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A couple of good articles about integrating OAuth into your Rails app.
http://stakeventures.com/articles/2009/07/21/consuming-oauth-intelligently-in-rails
http://stakeventures.com/articles/2007/11/26/how-to-turn-your-rails-site-into-an-oauth-provider
http://github.com/pelle/oauth-plugin/tree/master

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http://railscasts.com/episodes/171-delayed-job – A good railscast about using Delayed Job.
http://www.therailsway.com/2009/7/22/do-it-later-with-delayed-job – Article by TheRailsWay about why to use and how to use.
It looks like are really simple way to offload long running tasks.

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In this article, Intridea shows you how to use CloudFront and AssetPackager together and prevent stale copies of assets from being served.
http://www.intridea.com/posts/amazon-cloudfront-preventing-stale-assets

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A good article about using CloudFront from Amazon and the Paperclip plugin for Rails.  http://www.intridea.com/posts/using-amazon-cloudfront-to-serve-assets

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I decided about a week ago that I wanted to try Erubis with a Rails project to see if I got any performance boost.  So after reading the documentation, it appeared to be straightforward to install.  So I did.
But I discovered that the latest Erubis (2.6.4) and Rails 2.3 are not compatible.  After doing some [...]

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