Scaling Rails Applications has been a good topic over internet so far. From Jonathan Boutelle’s Barcamp Bangalore 2 session, had a good overview of how folks at Slideshare did it. It has been wounderfully architected with use of Amazon S3.

Twitter is Evan William’s newest product. Moreover, Twitter is this years success story. With millions of twits from millions of users, it has been reported that is struggling to scale. David posted couple of thuoghts over this issues in general last week.

Today evening I stumbled upon this wonderful slideshow on scaling rails. It has been created by Blaine Cook who works for Twitter.

Please find Slideshare scaling doc below

The douments like this really helped me rearranging my thoughts a lot. You guys rock!

Gayathri, a friend and collegue of mine had done a nice ROR poster last week. The best part is two ‘enlighted’ programmers smiling at each other. It was good to see ‘enterprise’ level guys blnking at it in surprise. It was an effective internal promotion.

Folks at i5labs had done an excellent work: Touchscreen System in Rails!.

This is i5labs’ first touchscreen project, and the first *ever* touchscreen on Rails! We implement Rails wherever possible and it’s working out fantastically. The code is base is tight (<2000 LOC) for the functionality we’re providing, and issues are easy to diagnose.

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David Heinemeier Hansson has announced Rails 1.1, newest version of the much beloved web development framework Ruby on Rails.

Rails 1.1 comes with brand new features like RJS, Active Record++, respond_to and as David puts it, 500 other things. Great!

I contacted my current webhost and asked whether they support Ruby. As expected, they said a clear ‘no’. So I fired up my browser and found certain Rails web hosting companies so far. The most comprehensive list is at official Rails Wiki and one more with rather useful comments are here.Choose any host but look for FastCGI in the spec list. Otherwise, your app will be loaded to memory on each request and it will mess up the server. So the app and the server - both will be damn slow.

Ambitiouslemon (Now signups suspended), non profit community, is supposed to offer free rails hosting plan. Their features list is very appealing. Take a look and you may get an account today or tomorrow.

Anyway the best way to try Rails is installing the packages in Windows or Linux and test app.