Latest Screencasts (page 24)

If there’s no way to cache the entire content of a page, then odds are you can probably cache smaller pieces of it.  This is where fragment caching comes in, allowing you to cache common parts of a webpage which are resource intensive and may be used accross mulitple pages.

In Rails 2.3 you can provide a template when generating a new Rails application. See how in this episode.

Page caching is pretty simple to do, but what happens when you need pagination or dynamic data on your pages? Can you still use page caching? In this screencast we’ll start out showing how to solve these problems and finish up with my first rant of the series "Login status is overrated."

Creating drag & drop sortable lists is fairly easy using Prototype and the built in helper methods. See how in this episode.

PayPal Express Checkout is easy to add to an existing ordering system. See how in this episode.

Welcome to the Scaling Rails Screencast Series produced by Gregg Pollack and supported by New Relic.

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.

Ruby on Rails comes with several caching mechanisms out of the box, starting with Page Caching. In this episode we show how to implement Page Caching in a simple blog application.

When you start caching html content which depends on data in your database, what happens when that data changes? You’re going to need to expire that cache, and in this episode, we show you how Rails makes this quite easy.

Before you attempt to Scale your Rails application, you need to know where and how to scale it.  This is where New Relic’s RPM service comes in.  In this screencast we’ll show you how easy it is to setup, and how useful it can be to monitor your Rails app.