Railscasts
Three times a week you will be treated to a new Railscasts episode featuring tips and tricks with Ruby on Rails, the popular web development framework. These screencasts are short and focus on one technique so you can quickly move on to applying it to your own project. The topics are geared toward the intermediate Rails developer, but beginners and experts will get something out of it as well.
#320 Jbuilder
6 days ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Jbuilder provides a DSL for generating JSON. It includes a template engine which allows you to create complex responses with helpers and conditions....
#318 Upgrading to Rails 3.2
13 days ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Rails 3.2 sports many new features including automatic explain queries, tagged logging, key-value store in Active Record, improved migration generator and...
#316 Private Pub
20 days ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Private Pub makes it easier than ever to publish and subscribe to real-time events in a Rails app. You can use publish_to with a block of JavaScript or...
#314 Pretty URLs with FriendlyId
27 days ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
If you are tired of model ids in the URL, overriding to_param can only get you so far. The friendly_id plugin can help by making it easy to generate a URL...
#312 Sending HTML Email
~1 month ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
HTML email can be difficult to code because any CSS should be made inline. Here I present a few tools for doing this including the premailer-rails3 and...
#310 Getting Started with Rails
~1 month ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Learning Ruby on Rails can be overwhelming, especially if you are new to programming. Here I will take you on a tour through various resources to help get...
#308 Oh My ZSH
~1 month ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
As Rails developers, we frequently use the command line. Here I will show how to switch to Z Shell using Oh My ZSH including how to make your own theme...
#306 ElasticSearch Part 1
~1 month ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Add full text searching using ElasticSearch and Tire. Here I will show the steps involved in adding this search to an existing application. This is the...
#304 OmniAuth Identity
2 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
With the release of OmniAuth 1.0 there is a new Identity strategy which allows users to register/login with a password if they don't want to use an external...
#302 In-Place Editing
2 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Edit an attribute in-place without leaving a page using the Best In Place gem. Learn how to add validations and support for various field types....
