There's also acts_as_enterprisey, which has been around for a while now http://github.com/airblade/acts_as_enterprisey/tree/master http://github.com/airblade/ac

There's also acts_as_enterprisey, which has been around for a while now http://github.com/airblade/acts_as_enterprisey/tree/master http://github.com/airblade/acts_as_enterprisey/tree/master From the site: Rails make life easy for us but -- and it's a big but -- we don't want it to look easy. acts_as_enterprisey is your friend. How does acts_as_enterprisey make webapp development look hard? Well, the only way your client can judge your app is by playing around with it. What better gives the feeling of heavy weights being lifted behind the scenes than slow response times? Exactly. That's what acts_as_enterprisey does. So while your client clicks, ...waits..., and then gets the page, you can blather on heroically about wrestling with clustered indexes, cache expiration strategies, n log n seek times, etc ad nauseam.