I’ve searched around for a decent tag cloud for Rails and really liked this Rails Tag Cloud solution. Its simple, easy to setup, and I like how it separates the cloud from my other code. I made some comments to the post which improves the cloud by ordering tags better.

I’ve just started using Mongrel instead of fastcgi for my Rails apps. Its only been a few days but I’m already loving the difference. Its so much faster than before. It wasn’t hard setting up either. Now Apache just proxies requests to Mongrel. I used this article titled Using Mongrel Cluster to set most of it up. I added a few minor customizations for my situation but nothing you can’t figure out from reading the article.