Scaling Rails – On The Edge – Part 1

11.5.09 by Gregg Pollack

It’s been a while since I’ve released a new Scaling Rails Screencast, but this morning I’m happy to announce that three new screencasts have been produced and the first one is being released today. In these screencasts I’m going to introduce you to 9 new Ruby and Rails libraries which can help you scale your rails application.

Scaling Rails

Download this Episode – (41.4 MB, 8:49, MP4)

In this first episode I introduce three tools:

  • Bullet – Help you reduce the number of queries with alerts (and growl).
  • Rails Indexes – Rake tasks to find missing indexes.
  • Scrooge – SQL query optimizer, so you query for only what your page needs.

These screencasts look great on your iPhone, so I highly encourage you to subscribe and download them on iTunes. Also, to keep up to date on the latest news in the Ruby and Rails community, be sure to check out the Ruby5 podcast if you haven’t already. Thanks!

Related posts:

  1. Scaling Rails – On The Edge – Part 2
  2. Scaling Rails – On The Edge – Part 3
  3. Announcing the Ruby5 Podcast

20 Responses to “Scaling Rails – On The Edge – Part 1”

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  1. roger says:

    also interesting tools are

    mysqlplus # avoid a GC collect every 20th query, plus multi-thread friendlier

    http://pennysmalls.com/2008/10/14/slim-attributes-v050-released # related to scrooge…kind of, by avoiding allocations if never used

    and find_as_hashes
    http://blog.chak.org/tag/hash # don’t load AR objects–just load hashes.

    GL.
    -r

    Also saw this recently: http://pennysmalls.com/2009/11/05/much-faster-rails-tests-if-you-use-myisam # speed up tests

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