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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.

Rails 2.2 is out! In this episode I show how to upgrade Rails and then demonstrate one of the new additions: Memoization.

In need of a background process? You may be able to accomplish this with a simple Rake task. See how in this episode.

Rails 2.1 brings some new caching features which makes it very easy to cache any values including models. See how in this episode.

You can use profiling to determine where the performance bottlenecks are in specific Rails actions. Watch this episode for details.

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.

Action caching behaves much like page caching except it processes the controller filters. You can also make it conditional as seen in this episode.

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.

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.

If you need to display the record count for a has_many association, you can improve performance by caching that number in a column.