There are several ruby performance patches, like the falcon patches, that may improve the performace of your application. I use rvm and was pleased to learn that rvm supports compiling ruby with several of these performance patches. Using rvm with the railsexpress patch, I saw a 20% reduction in the time required to run the test suite for a large rails project. Here is how you can install ruby with the railexpress patch using rvm....
You will eventually get tired of looking at UTC timestamps in your server log files. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuTime has a detailed guide for setting the time zone on your server and synchronizing it’s clock. Here are the commands I used to set my time zone and synchronize my clock on Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS. Set time zone sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata Synchronize clock sudo apt-get install ntp
I recently came across the site wtfjs.com. It highlights some idiosyncrasies of the Javascript language. It’s worth a look, you’ll get a deeper understanding of the Javascript language. This entry submitted by @diogobaeder held my attention. The solution was not immediately obvious to me so I did some digging. Once I found the correct type coercion rules the result were logical. var foo = [0]; console.log(foo == foo); // true console....