Drink#50: Your Ruby on Rails Juice

Dear readers, please take the freshness of the flowers on the eve of the 50th post of the DrinkRails blog.

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1. Setting up a High Availability Ruby on Rails environment with keepalived, nginx, HA Proxy and Thin on Debian Lenny: A comprehensive post on setting up your Ruby on Rails production environment.
2. Ruby Summer of Code projects: A list of exciting projects with the participants.
3. acts_as_solr for full text searching: An awesome plugin for full text searching. I have used ferret and thinking-sphinx, while both are capable, solr takes it to a level ahead as it indexes rich documents alongside your database values.