Dennis Howlett has written an article for ZDNet about how Joyent has helped a Rails app scale to 1 billion pageviews per month. It's a bit vendor-focused, but still worthwhile.
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SubdomainFu is a plugin developed by Michael Bleigh of Intridea that allows you to easily deal with subdomains in your Rails applications.
Not just a superficial hack, SubdomainFu even extends the Rails routing system to allow you to specify subdomains within routes. Example:
url_for(:controller => "my_controller",
:action => "my_action",
:subdomain => "awesome")
From Ruby Inside: June 2008 Ruby Security Advisory: A Summary - Essentially, be aware, don't panic, and be careful regarding Rails and Ruby 1.8.6p230.
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Chad Pytel writes about some Gotchas When Upgrading to Rails 2.1. A handy guide if you're having issues.
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Rails-doc.org is a new attempt at organizing Rails' documentation by a Finnish company called Nodeta. As well as providing a quick way to search and browse through the existing documentation (with live search and keyboard accessible navigation), Rails-doc also allows registered…
Jim Neath has put together a handy guide on Using jQuery with Ruby on Rails.
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The registration process for RailsConf Europe 2008 has just opened, so if you want to guarantee your place, get going now. RailsConf Europe is Europe's primary Rails-focused conference and takes place this year in Berlin between September 2 - 4. The schedule has…
Gregg Pollack has posted a list of Ruby (and Rails) Conferences and Tracks on the official Rails blog. As an aside, we hope to feature an event calendar here at Rails Inside shortly.
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Yo Rails! is a new site that makes it easy to find quality Rails links (to tutorials, screencasts, resource sites, etc) simply by narrowing down what you want by tags. It was developed because finding certain items again using Google can…
The definitive Rails reference - a gazllion pages long and awesome throughout. A true Rails "bible."
An awesomely illustrated Rails book for beginners - a great way to learn Rails
The 3rd edition of the canonical Rails book from Sam Ruby, Dave Thomas, and David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Rails himself.