RubySlide

A presentation by John McCaffrey of RailsPerformance.com on how to manage technical information, ask technical questions, expand Ruby and Rails knowledge, and work on interesting side projects for open source, non-profits or as a freelancer

A walkthrough of various application performance tuning tools and a good workflow for where to start

Quick lightning talk on some cool things you can do in IRB and the Rails Console. There’s more in there than you think!

5 min lightning talk covering some of the tools I use for managing freelance projects on Ruby on Rails

(reposting with clearer title) Performance tuning presentation from WindyCityRails 2010. Why performance matters The right way to approach it Front end testing tools Automated testing tools Common problems and the ways to solve them in Rails Rails specific tools bullet slim_scrooge rack bug request log analyzer rails indexes

Performance tuning presentation for Chicago Rails Conference. Focusing on Front end page improvements

This presentation is the first in a series on Improving Rails application performance. This session covers the basic motivations and goals for improving performance, the best way to approach a performance assessment, and a review of the tools and techniques that will yield the best results. Tools covered include: Firebug, yslow, page speed, speed tracer, dom monster, request log analyzer, oink, rack bug, new relic rpm, rails metrics, showslow.org, msfast, webpagetest.org and gtmetrix.org. The upcoming sessions will focus on: Improving sql queries, and active record use Improving general rails/ruby code Improving the front-end And a final presentation will cover how to be a more efficient and effective developer! This series will be compressed into a best of session for the 2010 http://windycityRails.org conference