The biggest upgrade in Rails history has finally arrived. Rails 1.1 boasts more than 500 fixes, tweaks, and features from more than 100 contributors. Most of the updates just make everyday life a little smoother, a little rounder, and a li…

Everything started with a post, benchmarking cherrypy agains other similar web servers. Nothing special, we can see how good Mongrel is ;) What catched my attention was the lines about LuaWeb2: [Mongrel] ... Requests per second: 386.31 [#/…

Must read articles for everybody, doing RoR systems administration: The adventures of scaling, Stage 1 Questions and answers for Stage 1 The adventures of scaling, Stage 2 The adventures of scaling, Stage 3 Expect the last part on 02-Apr-2…