Advanced HTTP Caching
Category: Web Development > Ruby On Rails      Posted: 28 Feb 09

Once you have a firm grasp of the 3 header tags we talked about in the previous episode (max-age, etags, and last_modified) you can start to take advantage of reverse proxy caches. In this episode we let you know exactly what a proxy cache is, and how you might use it to effectively scale a dynamic w...

Action Caching
Category: Web Development > Ruby On Rails      Posted: 28 Feb 09

If you can't fully page cache your Rails action, when your next best choice is using Action Caching. Action Caching allows you to run filters such as authorization on each request before they're able to see the cached content of the page

Page Responsiveness
Category: Web Development > Ruby On Rails      Posted: 28 Feb 09

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