Rails Best Practices

DRY Controller (and debate)

For CRUD resources, we always write the same 7 actions with duplicated codes. To avoid this, you can use inherited_resources plugin. But be careful, there is DRY controller debate!! (http://www.binarylogic.com/2009/10/06/discontinuing-resourcelogic/) 1. You lose intent and readability 2. Deviating from standards makes it harder to work with other programmers 3. Upgrading rails trouble

Fix N+1 Queries

N+1 Queries is a serious database performance problem. Be careful of that situation! If you're not sure, I recommend you install http://github.com/flyerhzm/bullet plugin, which helps you reduce the number of queries with alerts (and growl).

Use css sprite automatically

Using css sprite can reduce a large number of http requests, so it makes the web page loaded much faster. It it painful to composite a lot of images manually, do it automatically.