Dave Elkins

Request per Second measurement

dave — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:59:47 +0000

The Rails Way is back with a post about the pitfalls of using request per second measurement when profile and why using request duration may be more useful.

This article made some really good points and I will definitely think about this the next time I am profiling my applications.

http://www.therailsway.com/2009/1/6/requests-per-second

Bamboo blogged about setting up a Xen server

dave — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:50:10 +0000

http://blog.new-bamboo.co.uk/2009/1/6/how-to-setup-your-own-virtualized-rails-hosting-environment-with-xen

Amazon SimplePay and Rails

dave — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:55:11 +0000

Using Amazon SimplePay with a Rails application is something I have looked at a couple of times but never got very far with it. This looks to be a great article about how to use it.

http://afreshcup.com/2009/01/04/using-amazon-simple-pay-from-rails/

A super list of Rails tutorials

dave — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:51:56 +0000

This is a huge list of tutorials about rails. Check it out, I am sure you will find something you are interested in.

http://rubypond.com/articles/2009/01/05/ruby-on-rails-tutorials/

RESTful way to implement password reset

dave — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:32:57 +0000

http://andrzejonsoftware.blogspot.com/2008/10/rest-some-tips-and-implementing-your.html

A good post about Rails Thread Safety

dave — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:46:20 +0000

http://m.onkey.org/2008/10/23/thread-safety-for-your-rails

Testing fragment caching post

dave — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:24:36 +0000

http://www.dcmanges.com/blog/testing-fragment-caching

Obie Fernandez is starting a series on MSAs

dave — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:33:04 +0000

Obie is starting a series dissecting what should go into a Master Service Agreement. It is a good read and something that is good to know about.

http://blog.obiefernandez.com/content/2008/09/master-services-agreement-part-1.html

Good Article about Load Testing

dave — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:03:24 +0000

http://www.igvita.com/2008/09/30/load-testing-with-log-replay/

A good article about MySQL and Rails

dave — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:49:32 +0000

This is a very good article about MySQL and Rails and some issues you can run into on high traffic apps. Most of these should be reserved for optimizations when there are issues. But they are good things to keep in mind.

The information about data scheme and indexes is very good think about when designing the data model.

Some information is a little out of date with the latest version of Rails but not a big deal.

Check out the article.

http://mysqldump.azundris.com/archives/72-Rubyisms.html