By default, when you create a report in Scout , we assume that the data corresponds to the time the report was submitted. Sometimes this isn’t the case – for example, you can retrieve the number of subscribers to your RSS feeds in Feedburner , but not from the current ... Read more

An oft-forgotten maintenance issue on Ruby on Rails applications is forgetting to expire old sessions. Lots of sessions in your database can dramatically slow performance. You can use a cron job to expire old sessions, but it’s not always foolproof. We’ve seen timeouts when attempting to delete lots of session ... Read more