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Here is what I’ve done to create this application: Use the ‘rails new’ command to create a rails application Set up the Gemfile Configure the Database Install Cucumber Install Rspec Install Devise Install CanCan Install jQuery Configure Devise Download (HD) 84.2 MB Download (iPod & iPhone) 47.4 MB

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MySQL is by far the most popular database management system for small- to medium-sized web projects. In MySQL Essential Training, instructor Bill Weinman provides clear, concise instruction in the tools needed to create and maintain a database. Bill explores the different data types MySQL supports, and the functions it provides,...

In this second screencast we start out by learning the differences between the myISAM and InnoDB database engines for MySQL.  Next we learn how to scale a write heavy database by using Master Master replication, and how we might configure this to work with our Rails application.  Lastly we’ll figure out how to shard our database by spliting our tables between multiple databases and show how both New Relic and eBay take advantage of this technique.

If the bottleneck of your application is your database even after caching as much as possible, what can you do? This is the first of two screencasts where we’re going to learn about techniques for increasing the power of your Database. In this first video we learn how to grow our database step by step using both vertical and horizontal scaling.

Rob Kaufman takes on database scaling with MySQL. This talk will walk you through setting up a Master (read write) Slave (read only) MySQL network, as well as a Master Master, or Multi-Master network. The talk will also cover the whys and when of database clustering. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.