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Real world Rails: Caching in Rails
Ruby on Rails is increasingly showing up as the base framework for sophisticated and scalable applications of medium and large size. Because Ruby is an interpreted language, to bend Rails to your will, you will need to employ many different caching strategies. This article explores the caching strategies that are available to you, including the ones we use for ChangingThePresent.org. 		Articles 15 May 2007  
 
Real world Rails, Part 4: Testing strategies in Ruby on Rails
Testing is firmly entrenched in the Ruby on Rails community. Many tools can help you, from the Rails stack to RCov for coverage to Mocha and FlexMock for enhancing your test cases. But different tools often support diverging strategies. Learn about the trade-offs of several basic testing strategies. 		Articles 14 Aug 2007  
 
Real world Rails, Part 3: Optimizing ActiveRecord
ActiveRecord is a fantastic persistence framework, but since the framework hides low-level details from you, it can be prone to performance problems. Discover the most common problems and how you can solve them. 		Articles 17 Jul 2007  
 
Real world Rails, Part 2: Advanced page caching
Normally, user-related content defeats page caching because the content for each user is subtly different. Using JavaScript with cookies, you can use page caching even when you're displaying some custom user data. This article explores advanced page caching in Ruby on Rails. 		Articles 26 Jun 2007  
 
Automate acceptance tests with Selenium
Acceptance, or functional, testing is designed to put manual tasks through their paces, but testing these tasks by hand can be time consuming and prone to human error. In this article, the author shows architects, developers, and testers how to use the Selenium testing tools to automate acceptance tests; automating the tests saves times and helps eliminate tester mistakes. You also are provided with an example of how to apply Selenium in a real-world project using Ruby on Rails and Ajax. 		Articles 20 Dec 2005  
 
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