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Mongrel Home Page

Home site of the Thin Rails application server. A extremely fast, lightweight replacement for mongrel.

Handy guide looking at the results of the Yahoo yslow FireFox plugin and how to handle some of the performance issues using Ruby on Rails or web server (nginx) configuration tricks.

Primary English documentation site for nginx. Contains many links to sample configuration files and other help.

A thorough technical guide to writing nginx modules in C.

How to compile the mysql gem when using the Mac Ports install of MySQL and the native Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) Ruby and Rails (and gems) installs.

Walks through installing Ruby and Rails, as well as Postgres, via ports on Mac OS X Leopard. This is an alternative to using the default Leopard installation.

A guide for getting SQLite installed on windows. Important as the default Rails DB is currently set to sqlite3.

Log4r is a comprehensive and flexible logging library written in Ruby for use in Ruby programs. It features a hierarchical logging system of any number of levels, custom level names, logger inheritance, multiple output destinations, execution tracing, custom formatting, thread safteyness, XML and YAML configuration, and more.

From the README: BackgrounDRb is a ruby job server and scheduler. It main intent is to be used with Ruby on Rails applications for offloading long running tasks. Since a rails application blocks while servicing a request it is best to move long running tasks off into a background process that is divorced from the http request/response cycle.

The canonical source for Linux documentation on the web.

Step by step instructions for installing a full Ruby and Rails stack (with Mongrel and MySQL) on a Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) system. These instructions have you compile almost all of the code and install a copy of the applications into /usr/local. This process does not disturb Apple installed software.

Official documentation for Passenger. Also included in the Gem files.

Group for discussion of Rails application deployment.

Large forum for community support of Linux. A good place to ask questions.

Are you accepting sensitive user data? Passwords, credit card numbers, etc. By default, Rails stores all submitted parameters in plain text in the logs. This episode will show you how to filter this sensitive input so it doesn’t show up in the log file.

How to use Passenger to host multiple applications on your development box.

In-depth screencast on using Passenger.

Discusses the default installation of Ruby on Mac OS X, particularly Leopard’s default environment, how to override, etc.

An open-source web-based web hosting control panel.

A Windows-based load and stress testing tool (commercial product).

Engine Yard Express is an Engine Yard slice wrapped up to go. Useful for offline development work. Is a VMWare Image.

A web-based interface to Capistrano. Open source.

Open-source production server stack for Ruby on Rails applications, assembled by ThoughtWorks.

Web-based control panel for deploying Rails applications.

Supervisor for Rails apps, updates TCP sockets to new code versions and restarts dead processes.

mod_rails is an Apache module that supports Rails applications without requiring a separate application server. This could be the biggest thing in Rails hosting since Mongrel.

A web server alternative that claims twice the performance of Apache.

Httperf is a tool for measuring web server performance. It provides a flexible facility for generating various HTTP workloads and for measuring server performance. The focus of httperf is not on implementing one particular benchmark but on providing a robust, high-performance tool that facilitates the construction of both micro- and macro-level benchmarks.

Apache 2 module that enables your application server to tell Apache when to send a static file. Use with Rails Xsendfile plugin.

The official site for the world’s most widely used web server.

Rails database adapter that supports replicated MySQL databases.

You need a JDBC driver for SQLite if you want to use the Netbeans IDE database service UI.

Links to precompiled binaries and source code for sqlite.

Ruby bindings for SQLite

Manages any SQLite database on your computer.

github home of the action_mailer_optional_tls plugin. Use this plugin to connect to Google GMail from your Rails app. Pay attention to Googles TOU, as there are limits to the number of email messages you can send in one day.

Doesn’t appear to have been updated in a while, but still lots of logging/analysis tools to check out.

The largest commercial supplier of Linux software, including Red Hat Enterprise and the free version, Fedora.

Fedora is the community version of Linux from Red Hat Inc., which also provides the commercial Red Hat Enterprise version.

A community version of Red Hat Enterprise.

Main site for Phusion’s Passenger Apache module, also known as mod_rails, which allows Ruby on Rails applications to be hosted without a separate application server.

Full source for the open-source Passenger Apache module.

Presentation slides, recording, and quick reference for Httperf talk at www2007 conference.

Good overview of what EXPLAIN is, how its results are calculated, and what all of the data is presents means.

Directory with reviews of Rails hosting companies.

Directory of Rails hosting companies, sortable in various ways and with user reviews and ratings.

Engine Yard provides high-end Rails hosting. They are the hosting provider for BuildingWebApps.com.

A turnkey hosted solution for deploying Rails applications.

Low-cost shared and VPS Rails hosting.

Inexpensive general-purpose web hosting company with some Rails support.

Mid-range (and up) Rails hosting.

High-quality, mid-range Rails hosting.

Mid-range Rails hosting.

Hosted service for monitoring the performance of your Ruby on Rails application, as well as all the software components of your hosting infrastructure.

Provides detailed analysis of your Amazon Web Services S3 account and generates nightly reports in Webalizer format.

A community site for Linux information.