Scaling Rails

Episode #1 - Page Responsiveness

Before we can talk about Server-side performance, we need to go over Client-side performance. We’re talking about how fast your website comes up in a user’s browser.

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Firebug Firefox Plugin
YSlow for Firebug
AssetPackager Rails Plugin
Google AJAX Libraries API
Google AJAX Libraries Rails Plugin
Amazon Cloudfront
Amazon Cloudfront - Getting Started Guide
Browser caching is a little more complex (followup) contributed
Charles Web Debugging Proxy contributed
http://code.google.com/p/bundle-fu/ contributed
setting up apache so it caches right contributed
Google Page Speed contributed
Page Speed for Firebug contributed
slim attributes--speed up active record contributed
scrooge--speed up active record contributed
Fiddler2 contributed

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Gregg Pollack is part of the Rails Activist Team and partner at Envy Labs where he produces a podcast, creates educational Ruby videos, and develops websites with Rails.

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