Ruby performance patches
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....