Simpltry

In no particular order

FiveRuns TuneUp

It is a tool for looking at what is make a request slow. The above screen shot shows the RideCharge landing page call stack.

Internally we hacked it so that it doesn’t run in development, but in a new environment development_tuneup. I also hacked it to ignore the idea of being logged in, to speed up adoption.

Passenger 2.0

I have long been a fan of mod_rails (now branded as passenger). There was a lot to be excited about in their talk. They talked about the release candidate features. But one of the most obvious (after you hear it) features was buffering file uploads. So, wait until the file is uploaded then dispatch to rails.

A Continued Commitment To Testing

The rails community has always been pretty committed to testing. It is our version of type safety. But, people are trying to do more and more testing in less and less time. There was a talk called “The Great Test Dance-Off” by Josh Susser. It was a pretty good summary of, Test::Unit vs. RSpec vs. Shoulda. David Chelimsky, RSpec Lead Developer, did a great write up on the talk. While I am a Shoulda man, I wholeheartedely agree with him that anything to get people testing and talking about testing is awesome.