Tutorial: building and styling a Rails app with styled_objects
How to keep your stylesheets clean and organized using Rails
This tutorial covers building a web application from scratch using Rails with the styled_objects plugin.
styled_objects Rails plugin
Yesterday I released the styled_objects Rails plugin.
styled_objects is a Rails plugin for simplifying stylesheet management on your application.
Rails cache in distributed environment
Page and fragment caching are life-savers for Rails application scalability. Specially for page cache, they can make your app fast, specially if you use a webserver like Nginx, serving static files directly without touching the Rails stack.
But maintaining cache consistency across a distributed Rails application can be challenging.
Please make the web faster
Let's make the web faster, says Google. Best practices for speeding up your website, says Yahoo.
Search engines want to crawl the web faster, and website owners want their users to have a good navigation experience which includes fast page loading.
Both Google and Yahoo say approximately the same regarding techniques for optimizing page load and rendering speed. I am not going to go through each one of them, it's not the point. Let me just tell you my experience regarding the implementation of these rules.
Structural SEO
SEO, SEO, it's all so 2005... but yet, if you check the average website, the SEO concerns lack on the implementation side.
Everyone in the Marketing department is concerned about metadata, keyword density, and all the other recommended metrics to quantify you content SEO, but, for the most part, their website implementation lacks at least one part of something that I call Structural SEO.