Lone Star Ruby Conf 2008: Tips and Tricks for Tweaking and Using Ruby and rails for a Distributed Enterprise Application
This talk will cover some of of the lessons learned implementing the Spiceworks Application including:
- acts_as_modifiable – a Rails plugin that we built that allows you to override and extend class values
- on the fly gem updates – how we keep our rapidly changing application up to date across the world
- performance – discuss tweaks that range from custom caching and design improvements to recompiling the ruby runtime
- avoiding deadlock – the strain of the single threaded nature of Rails and Sqlite3