Last week we hosted our first Rails meetup in St.Petersburg, Russia. It was an interesting experience and what’s more important people loved it. Over 20 Rails developers showed up (apart from a dozen of Sphere’s developers who were there as well). We had 6 presentations including two from people who came over.
I want to share a few insights in case you’d like to host a meetup in your own city:
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Here is a list of upcoming Rails conferences in the following three months. Our team will definitely show up at some of them. If you see anyone in Sphere’s t-shirt, please, come over for a chit chat or just to say “hello” 
Whether you run an online store, community or news portal, one day you might want to add a search option for your users. And they will expect it to work fast and to provide relevant results.
There are many ways of how you can boost performance of Ruby On Rails applications. Approaches might be different and depend on the application structure, size of the database and traffic intensity but a general recommendation can also be given.
In this article we will overview techniques and architectural solutions that will help you to improve performance of your applications.
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When I started studying Facebook ML I’ve found a very interesting thing about HTML DOM which I didn’t know before. That’s how I can extend it with my own custom HTML tags just like I do it in .NET WPF/Silverlight for example.
That’s how we can do it:
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