The Rails Documentation App - Rails-doc.org
Clean your configuration with configuration_manager
Community Engine | A Social Networking Plugin for Ruby on Rails
Dynamically created methods in Ruby - Use def, avoid define_method
“Imagine trying to make a Rails project LSB compliant — your database.yaml file would need to be in /etc, your log directory would need to be in /var, and your actual code would need to be in /usr. There went all of your fancy Rails “convention over configuration”, and you’re suddenly fighting Rails instead of using it, and everyone you ask for help just tells you to “put it in vendor”.” — Puppet Blog: Development and More
flamefest: Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails
rails: Using Thin Instead Of Mongrel
rails: From Param: How URL-Based Fetching Ought to Be - From Param will auto-magically save the to_param of your model to the specified parameter column (defaults to “param” but you can set it by calling set_param_column) and then automatically know to find by that column if it exists when from_param is called. This way, all you have to do is define a to_param that will be unique to your record and everything else is handled for you!
“the only writing that is of great value anymore is that which explains why something matters” — Rex Hammock
“It may be easier than ever to build something and, perhaps because of social networking, easier to get an audience. But all of the syntactic sugar in the world doesn’t make it any easier to scale an application.” — Why Johnny Can’t Scale