Rails.cache rocks, but it can be tricky to set it up for development mode. For my purposes I need to:

• Keep config.cache_classes to false so that I don't have to restart my server while I develop
• Cache all kinds of objects, not just strings
• Be able to invalidate the cache easily from cron scripts or other offline processes
• Test caching locally before deploying

There's a new effort underway to add tutorials to the Rails API documentation. Here's the first draft of a tutorial I just wrote describing how to create plugins.

It took me a while to figure out how to try to contribute to Rails now that it's on Lighthouse / Github. Here's what I do now, and it seems to work:

If you are running Rails Edge from github, you can now get Super Sexy Migrations, like this: