When your Ruby On Rails Website gets famous you're going to wish you implemented proper caching. Are you worried? Maybe just a little?This tutorial is going to show everything you need to know to use Caching in your Rails applications, so when you get digg'd or slashdot'd you won't be left begging your hosting provider for more CPU processing power.

The impending release of Ruby on Rails version 3 both refines and expands the capabilities of the popular Web application framework. Offering cleaner controllers and savvier SQL queries, you can expect to write less code than before. Better yet, you can include most of the components of Rails 3 in any Ruby application. Here's a look at what's changed for the better.

IronRuby is Microsoft's implementation of Ruby on the .NET framework. This article introduces IronRuby, and covers running Rails applications in IronRuby as well as potential issues to look out for

There have been many extravagant claims made about Rails. For example, an article in OnLAMP.com1 claimed that “you could develop a web application at least ten times faster with Rails than you could with a typical Java framework...” The article then went on to show how to install Rails and Ruby on a PC and build a working ‘scaffold’ application with virtually no coding. While this is impressive, ‘real’ web developers know that this is smoke and mirrors. ‘Real’ applications aren’t as simple as that. What’s actually going on beneath the surface? How hard is it to go on and build ‘real’ applications?

This is the second part of the "Rolling with Ruby on Rails Revisited" tutorial

One week experience of learning Ruby on Rails by Ron Jeffries

This article will walk you through modeling a Ruby application, learning various constructs of MongoDB, and then integrating it into Rails and Sinatra. In this article by Gautam Rege, the author of Ruby and MongoDB Web Development Beginner's Guide, we will cover: Modeling the application data. Mapping it to MongoDB objects. Creating embedded and relational objects. Fetching objects. How does this differ from the SQL way? Take a brief look at a Map/Reduce, with an example.

This article details the components of Rails and shows you how it works.

Ruby on Rails is increasingly showing up as the base framework for sophisticated and scalable applications of medium and large size. Because Ruby is an interpreted language, to bend Rails to your will, you will need to employ many different caching strategies. This article explores the caching strategies that are available to you.

Real life experience on programming with Ruby on Rails by Ron Jeffries