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To write large scale applications you need a few more tools than just using ActiveRecord:

• Tokyo Cabinet stores 1 million records in 0.7 seconds. Used by Japanese Facebook You need to use faster storage. Ordinary DB might not be sufficient.
  • Rufus Tokyo Ruby Interface
  • Installing all from GitHub
• Shooting Star, A Ruby implemetation of Comet, which is used by Google Talk. Polling is expensive. You need to handle real time events from the server for your AJAX applications.
  • Juggernaut is actually easier to use.
• Starling, the job queue manager. Your API has to return as soon as possible. Queue the requests. Used in Twitter
• cache_fu, acts_as_cached
  • Presentation of Chris Wanstrath, github
  • Testing Caching
• RubyCAS Server
  • Central authentication in one place for many applications
  • You can manage it with Clearance - The Rails Authentication For Developers Who Write Tests (source at github)

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