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I'm inheriting a Rails app and I'm thinking of switching it over to Node.js for performance reasons. Most of the code currently implemented is pretty basic and it's all Rails but we're already having performance problems are we're still in beta. I've used Rails before, but I'm not guru and I wanted to know if someone could point me to some resources for tweaking Rails performance?

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Definitely stick with Rails, the framework will give you the training wheels you probably need. Switch to Node.js and you'll probably end up with bowl of noodle code soup.

Railscasts has a bunch of episodes covering performance related topics http://railscasts.com/?tag_id=1

Yeah, I've really been liking what I've seen from Rails so far. It seems like there is a lot of support for a lot of functions/features that you just generally need which is awesome.

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