http://www.austinonrails.org/articles_controller.rb/tag?tag=reinh en-us 40 Austin's own Ruby on Rails User Group <h1>Performance Tuning Your Rails App</h1> Writing Rails applications is easy, writing fast rails applications can be trickier. We will take a look at how to diagnose and solve some common performance issues with Ruby on Rails applications. We will focus on optimizing a typical Rails application at three levels: the Rails framework, ActiveRecord and MySQL. We will also discuss some tools available to help you find and fix issues at these three levels. <p/><p/> <a href="http://robmack.com/">Rob Mack</a> has been developing Java and Ruby on Rails web applications professionally for about 3 years and is currently working as a Rails developer for <a href="http://vitalsource.com/">VitalSource Technologies</a>. <p/><p/><p/><p/> <h1>RESTful Rails Web Services for the Rails World</h1> A common-sense guide to creating and consuming RESTful resources in the Rails world. Understand the Resource Oriented Architecture and how you can make your application a first-class citizen in the programmable web. <p/><p/> <a href="http://reinh.com/">Rein Henrichs</a> is a Software Engineer at <a href="http://www.factech.com/">Facilities Technology Group</a>. He has been designing for the web for 5 years and working with Ruby and Rails for over two years. He contributes to various open source projects, including <a href="http://merb.rubyforge.org/files/README.html">Merb</a>, <a href="http://datamapper.org/">DataMapper</a>, and <a href="http://reinh.com/2007/10/15/project-offtrac">Eskort</a>. He is passionate about web standards, creating joyful user interfaces, and the programmable web. <p/><p/> Socialization practice to follow at Hickory Street. <p/><p/> Looking forward to see you there! <p/><p/> P.S. <p/><p/> I'm thinking we should get together for the holidays again at Dave & Busters? We could throw back a few beverages and play some games. What do you think? Sun, 04 Nov 2007 15:53:00 -0800 urn:uuid:e319973b-e9d4-4e66-b27f-9c5968fba975 Damon Clinkscales http://www.austinonrails.org/articles/2007/11/04/meeting-tuesday-november-13th-7pm Meeting Ruby Rails activerecord performance REST robmack reinh