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A thorough technical guide to writing nginx modules in C.

Official documentation for Passenger. Also included in the Gem files.

Inexpensive Rails hosting

The canonical source for Linux documentation on the web.

Home site of the Thin Rails application server. A extremely fast, lightweight replacement for mongrel.

Primary English documentation site for nginx. Contains many links to sample configuration files and other help.

Walks through installing Ruby and Rails, as well as Postgres, via ports on Mac OS X Leopard. This is an alternative to using the default Leopard installation.

Mongrel Home Page

A guide for getting SQLite installed on windows. Important as the default Rails DB is currently set to sqlite3.

Handy guide looking at the results of the Yahoo yslow FireFox plugin and how to handle some of the performance issues using Ruby on Rails or web server (nginx) configuration tricks.

Step by step instructions for installing a full Ruby and Rails stack (with Mongrel and MySQL) on a Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) system. These instructions have you compile almost all of the code and install a copy of the applications into /usr/local. This process does not disturb Apple installed software.

How to compile the mysql gem when using the Mac Ports install of MySQL and the native Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) Ruby and Rails (and gems) installs.

Log4r is a comprehensive and flexible logging library written in Ruby for use in Ruby programs. It features a hierarchical logging system of any number of levels, custom level names, logger inheritance, multiple output destinations, execution tracing, custom formatting, thread safteyness, XML and YAML configuration, and more.

From the README: BackgrounDRb is a ruby job server and scheduler. It main intent is to be used with Ruby on Rails applications for offloading long running tasks. Since a rails application blocks while servicing a request it is best to move long running tasks off into a background process that is divorced from the http request/response cycle.

Blog from the developers of FiveRuns hosted system management application.

 Passenger 3 adds a lot of performance improvements, plus compatibility for Rails 3, Ruby 1.9.2, RVM and Bundler

Group for discussion of Rails application deployment.

Large forum for community support of Linux. A good place to ask questions.

In-depth screencast on using Passenger.

How to use Passenger to host multiple applications on your development box.

Are you accepting sensitive user data? Passwords, credit card numbers, etc. By default, Rails stores all submitted parameters in plain text in the logs. This episode will show you how to filter this sensitive input so it doesn’t show up in the log file.

Discusses the default installation of Ruby on Mac OS X, particularly Leopard’s default environment, how to override, etc.

Httperf is a tool for measuring web server performance. It provides a flexible facility for generating various HTTP workloads and for measuring server performance. The focus of httperf is not on implementing one particular benchmark but on providing a robust, high-performance tool that facilitates the construction of both micro- and macro-level benchmarks.

Main site for Phusion’s Passenger Apache module, also known as mod_rails, which allows Ruby on Rails applications to be hosted without a separate application server.

The official site for the world’s most widely used web server.

A community version of Red Hat Enterprise.

Fedora is the community version of Linux from Red Hat Inc., which also provides the commercial Red Hat Enterprise version.

The largest commercial supplier of Linux software, including Red Hat Enterprise and the free version, Fedora.

github home of the action_mailer_optional_tls plugin. Use this plugin to connect to Google GMail from your Rails app. Pay attention to Googles TOU, as there are limits to the number of email messages you can send in one day.

mod_rails is an Apache module that supports Rails applications without requiring a separate application server. This could be the biggest thing in Rails hosting since Mongrel.

Links to precompiled binaries and source code for sqlite.

Apache 2 module that enables your application server to tell Apache when to send a static file. Use with Rails Xsendfile plugin.

Rails database adapter that supports replicated MySQL databases.

Open-source production server stack for Ruby on Rails applications, assembled by ThoughtWorks.

Simple gem/script that helps analyze Rails log files for hotspots.

Full source for the open-source Passenger Apache module.

A Windows-based load and stress testing tool (commercial product).

Engine Yard Express is an Engine Yard slice wrapped up to go. Useful for offline development work. Is a VMWare Image.

Manages any SQLite database on your computer.

Ruby bindings for SQLite

You need a JDBC driver for SQLite if you want to use the Netbeans IDE database service UI.

An open-source web-based web hosting control panel.

Web-based control panel for deploying Rails applications.

Supervisor for Rails apps, updates TCP sockets to new code versions and restarts dead processes.

A web-based interface to Capistrano. Open source.

A web server alternative that claims twice the performance of Apache.

Doesn’t appear to have been updated in a while, but still lots of logging/analysis tools to check out.

Good overview of what EXPLAIN is, how its results are calculated, and what all of the data is presents means.

Presentation slides, recording, and quick reference for Httperf talk at www2007 conference.

Directory of Rails hosting companies, sortable in various ways and with user reviews and ratings.

Directory with reviews of Rails hosting companies.

Rails hosting company in the Netherlands.

Engine Yard provides high-end Rails hosting. They are the hosting provider for BuildingWebApps.com.

Hosted service for monitoring the performance of your Ruby on Rails application, as well as all the software components of your hosting infrastructure.

Mid-range Rails hosting.

High-quality, mid-range Rails hosting.

Inexpensive general-purpose web hosting company with some Rails support.

Provides detailed analysis of your Amazon Web Services S3 account and generates nightly reports in Webalizer format.

Mid-range (and up) Rails hosting.

Low-cost shared and VPS Rails hosting.

A turnkey hosted solution for deploying Rails applications.

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