By choosing to build your web app in Rails, countless choices have been made for you that give you the best chance of a successful launch. Nevertheless, there are some details you will need to take care of on your own.

In this class, we will implement the minimum precautionary steps to ensure the performance and security of our Rails apps.

Please make sure you have completed the Getting Started guide at http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html and be ready to hack on your blogs in class.

Recommended reading
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/security.html
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/caching_with_rails.html