Trying to Google around for an a Rails plugin that will allow for throttling the amount of requests a particular resource gets consumed. Django\'s Piston has some open source co
Here's some rack middleware that accomplishes what you're after: http://github.com/dambalah/api-throttling
and here's a blog post about the development of that middleware: http://blog.messagepub.com/2009/05/05/how-to-rack-middleware-for-api-throttling/