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Piggy back plugin updated

over 5 years ago by Stefan Kaes on RailsExpress.blog.
Timo Hentschel, one of my coworkers at the company for which I’m doing contract work at the moment (AutoScout24), has added a nifty little extension...

Rails Template Optimizer Beta Test

almost 6 years ago by Stefan Kaes on RailsExpress.blog. [Linked from: skwpspace, skwpspace, wannabe3.1]
It’s there. Finally. Get it while it’s still hot. Be among the first to experience unprecedented rendering speed for Rails Erb templates ;-...

RailsConf2006 Aftermath

almost 6 years ago by Stefan Kaes on RailsExpress.blog.
As promised during my talk at RailsConf, I have uploaded a new version of my railsbench package to rubyforge. You can either download the tar ball or get...

Common Rails Performance Problems

almost 6 years ago by Stefan Kaes on RailsExpress.blog.
InfoQ has published an article on common Rails performance problems (written by me). You can head over to read all about it....

Simpler Piggy Backing

almost 6 years ago by Stefan Kaes on RailsExpress.blog.
A while ago I posted an article about the performance improvements obtainable by piggy backing. Although the speedups where substantial, I received some...

Ruby en Rails 2006

~6 years ago by Stefan Kaes on RailsExpress.blog.
Next week, there’s a Rails conference in the Netherlands, Ruby en Rails 2006, were I will present my wisdom about Rails performance tuning. If you...

Performance related changes in Rails 1.1

~6 years ago by Stefan Kaes on RailsExpress.blog.
In addition to being packed with new features and also some forgotten ones, the recently released Rails 1.1 contains a number of performance related changes...

Rails 1.1 Release

~6 years ago by Stefan Kaes on RailsExpress.blog.
As you probably know already, Rails 1.1 was released a few days ago. We have worked hard to ensure that 1.1 performs on the same level as 1.0. For some...

Presenting at RailsConf 2006

~6 years ago by Stefan Kaes on RailsExpress.blog.
I’m proud to announce that I will be giving a talk at RailsConf2006 on Rails Application Optimization. If you have specific topics or questions...

Using memcached for Ruby on Rails session storage

over 6 years ago by Stefan Kaes on RailsExpress.blog.
A few days ago Eric Hodel announced the availability of a new pure Ruby memcached client implementation (memcache-client-1.0.3) with performance improvements...