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Rails Metal
Episode #150Feb 23, 200944 comments

Rails Metal

Rails Metal is a way to bypass the standard Rails request process for a performance boost. In this episode you will learn how to shave off a few milliseconds using Metal. (9 minutes)
Memoization
Episode #137Nov 24, 200848 comments

Memoization

Rails 2.2 is out! In this episode I show how to upgrade Rails and then demonstrate one of the new additions: Memoization. (5 minutes)
Rake in Background
Episode #127Sep 15, 200862 comments

Rake in Background

In need of a background process? You may be able to accomplish this with a simple Rake task. See how in this episode. (10 minutes)
Request Profiling
Episode #98Mar 24, 200835 comments

Request Profiling

You can use profiling to determine where the performance bottlenecks are in specific Rails actions. Watch this episode for details. (10 minutes)
Analyzing the Production Log
Episode #97Mar 17, 200836 comments

Analyzing the Production Log

In order to improve performance of your Rails application you need to find the bottlenecks. A great starting point is your production log. In this episode you will see how to use RAWK to analyze your log file and determine which controller actions take up the most processing time. (5 minutes)
Action Caching
Episode #93Feb 17, 200837 comments

Action Caching

Action caching behaves much like page caching except it processes the controller filters. You can also make it conditional as seen in this episode. (7 minutes)
Fragment Caching
Episode #90Jan 27, 200842 comments

Fragment Caching

Sometimes you only want to cache a section of a page instead of the entire page. Fragment caching is the answer as shown in this episode. (6 minutes)
Page Caching
Episode #89Jan 20, 200834 comments

Page Caching

Page caching is an efficient way to cache stateless content. In this episode I will show you how to cache the dynamic javascript we created last week. (6 minutes)
Counter Cache Column
Episode #23Apr 25, 200769 comments

Counter Cache Column

If you need to display the record count for a has_many association, you can improve performance by caching that number in a column. (7 minutes)
Eager Loading
Episode #22Apr 23, 200754 comments

Eager Loading

One way to improve performance is to cut down on the number of SQL queries. You can do this through eager loading. Learn all about it in this episode! (4 minutes)