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Out & About: What the Plexus Crew Has Been Up To
Nov 5, 2008
GEDA Annual Meeting – Savannah, Georgia Stephanie, Natalie and Kelly traveled south for the annual meeting of the Georgia Economic Developers Association. In addition to exhibiting, the trio presented GEDA’s new Web site, hosting a tutorial on the site’s new functionality including its membership directory, online event registration and more for the 350 members who ...
Rails Caching non HTML Files in a Different Cache Location
May 8, 2007 by Adam
We use page caching in Rails to speed up sites and improve performance. This is a great feature of Rails but can get cumbersome when trying to keep up with which pages to sweep and when. To make life easier we use a separate directory to house the cache. This solution is great for files that end in a .html extension but for other file types you need a new rewrite rule...
Rails inline ERb effects on HTML structure
Mar 20, 2007 by Travis
When using Ruby on Rails, ERb (embedded Ruby) is used a LOT in the X/HTML. There are two types of ERb, An evaluation block: <% some_code %> And an output block: <%= @print_this_variable %> These blocks are necessary when using Rails, and I've noticed that when I do a 'View Source' (via the Web Developer addon for Firefox, of course), I se...
Nov 10, 2006 by Adam
Rails page caching is without a doubt the best way to speed up your application and reduce the server load. I decided to cache some XML I was dumping out for a web service and realized that Rails will cache the document as HTML. As long as the controller handles nothing but xml you can do the following as a work-around: class LinkApiController < ApplicationCont...
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