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Category Archives: Ruby and Rails

80 pages of Ruby on Rails Performance Optimization Tips

By laran | Published: 2010/02/25
Learn how to get more performance from your Rails applications.
Posted in Ruby and Rails | Tagged performance | 1 Comment

Ruby Garbage Collection In-Depth

By laran | Published: 2010/02/24
Ruby garbage collection in gory detail.
Posted in Ruby and Rails | Tagged garbage collection | Leave a comment

Ruby Blocks, Procs, Lambda

By laran | Published: 2010/02/18
The in-depth 411 on Ruby closures.
Posted in Ruby and Rails | Tagged closures, ruby | Leave a comment

Installing Phusion Passenger for Apache: Step 1.5

By laran | Published: 2009/12/12
Learn how to avoid some common problems encountered when installing Phusion Passenger.
Posted in Ruby and Rails | Tagged passenger, rails, tip | Leave a comment

Rails ActionMailer the right way

By laran | Published: 2009/04/08
Get results faster when developing with ActionMailer by knowing the best places to find help.
Posted in Ruby and Rails | Tagged ActionMailer, documentation, guides, rails | 4 Comments

Speed up Rails apps with RPM

By laran | Published: 2008/08/07
Learn how to better visualize the internals of your Rails applications with RPM from New Relic.
Posted in Ruby and Rails | Tagged performance, rails, ruby | Leave a comment

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    I've got a masters degree in computer science and over 10 years of experience building web-based systems using Java/J2EE, Ruby, Rails and PHP. I'm a strong believer in the effectiveness of Agile Methods. Read more »

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