The Rails Analyzer project contains a collection of tools for Rails that let you discover biggest slow spots in your applications allowing you to best focus optimization efforts. Examines Rails log files and gives a report showing you the worst speed offendors. It also includes action grep which will give you all log results for a particular action. Lets you profile actions to determine points of optimization. All tools can be downloaded.

Rails Assets is the frictionless proxy between Bundler. It automatically converts the packaged components into gems that are easily droppable into your asset pipeline and stay up to date.

now should be used in place of the Ruby method Time. now to pickup the local time zone. The params hash contains all the data that was submitted from a request. Instead, copy the params hash and modify the copy.

I really want some more Rails geeks on my Twitter. Anyone care to add me? Wed, Aug. Previously I worked with a lot of PHP, and a friend suggested I check out Ruby.

Entity-Relationship Diagrams for Ruby on Rails. Document your Rails 3 application with automatically generated model diagrams. Customise the diagram style, or create your own diagrams. Is a plugin for Ruby on Rails. That generates diagrams based on your Active Record models. Gives an overview of your models and how they are associated. Or read the installation instructions. How does it work? That allows you to inspect your models.