Here are the slides of the talk I gave at the Sri Lankan Ruby user group’s meetup.

(It was picked by Slideshare editorial team as a featured presentation on 1st October 2009)

I’m excited to announce that I will be contributing to Ruby Best Practices blog, which is a collaborative effort organized by Gregory Brown with some awesome Ruby developers in the community.

If you are a Ruby hacker, who loves writing smart and robust code be sure to subscribe to Ruby Best Practices.

There’s a popular misconception when it comes to Rails development that it can’t scale. However, in reality you could perfectly scale any Rails app, if you apply the correct techniques. Identifying these best practices have been tricky, since it involved lot of trials and errors.

Today Greg Pollack, of RailsEnvy fame, has done a great favor to Rails community by releasing free 13 part screencast series (currently 5 episodes are out) on Scaling Rails. So next time when someone tells “Rails can’t scale” you know the answer.

As a Catholic, to me, Christmas has always been about giving. Of course, this time around I thought I’d go the extra mile and share some virtual love with geeks everywhere. Inspired by 24 Ways, I decided to do my part this season by writing an article a day on something that is very dear to me – Ruby.

Focused on tips, tricks and hacks to try out during these few weeks, Ruby Advent aims to be a resource for newbies and veterans alike. As we reflect on the year gone by, and spend time with the people we care about this holiday season, it’s also good to look to the future, and exercise our collective brain power in anticipation of one of the most challenging years ahead. Ruby Advent is a chance to make some friends, hack some code, and stay in the spirit of the season throughout.

Of course, the main focus of Ruby Advent is community, and in this vein I’d like to thank the people who linked, and these guys who contributed, and many, many others for getting behind us and powering this project through.

Whether you’re a hobbyist, hacker or code machine extraordinaire, it should be obvious by now that the Ruby community has hacks and hugs galore to give this season. Join the party at Ruby Advent and see what we’re talking about!