At Jamglue we've always had the Apache rewrite rules set up to serve up our rails /public directory without hitting the mongrel servers, but we recently went one further and pushed all the static files there onto Amazon's S3 service.

As a result, most page loads hit our server only once, which is pretty remarkable. Everything else stays between the client and Amazon's data centers, which is fine with us.

Here's how you can do the same.