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Updated my code based on Matt's follow-up post.

Adding the :paged option to a resource is a really nice little convenience. It's something we always need to do in order to generate clean URLs that you can page cache. Very, very nice.

Looking forward to more.

I've never really loved the will_paginate plugin. Sure, it works right out of the box. And if you stick to the defaults, it's falling-down simple. But that's always been my problem with it: What if I don't want the defaults?

Sure, will_paginate can be modified and customized pretty much any way you want, and we've done so many, many times. But for me, it always felt a bit too abstracted, a bit too opaque.

Enter Paged Scopes, a clever little gem that makes pagination a whole lot cleaner and clearer in my opinion.

What the gem does is very simple: It extends ActiveRecord's already incredibly powerful named scopes by adding pagination- ...

Redid the old slice this a.m., this time with Rails on Passenger and the lightweight web server Nginx. It could absolutely not have been simpler.

Have to hand it to the Phusion guys: Passenger just keeps getting better and better.

Why did I decide to move from Apache to Nginx? We're thinking of moving to an Nginx stack at work, so I figured I'd give it a whirl to see if there are any obvious problems. None so far. And a quick ab benchmarking shows the old blog is purring along faster than before.

Plus, it has a cool-as-hell logo:

More to come.