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.

#300 Contributing to Open Source


3 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
GitHub makes it easier than ever to contribute to open source with pull requests. Here I show how to submit a pull request to the VCR project....

#298 Getting Started with Spree


3 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Spree allows you to quickly turn a Rails project into a full eCommerce application. Here I show how to set it up and configure the look and feel of the...

#296 Mercury Editor


3 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Mercury allows you to edit a section of HTML directly in the web browser through a WISYIWYG editor. Here I show how to integrate Mercury into a Rails app...

#294 Playing with PJAX


3 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
PJAX allows you to quickly update a section of a page using AJAX with automatic pushState support. Here I show how to use both pjax_rails and rack-pjax...

#292 Virtual Machines with Vagrant


3 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Vagrant allows you to run your Rails application and all of its dependencies in a portable, sharable environment. Use for development, set it up as a staging...

#290 SOAP with Savon


4 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Communicating with a SOAP API can be a daunting task. Savon makes this easier by presenting the SOAP API through a Ruby interface....

#288 Billing with Stripe


4 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Stripe is a full-stack payment solution with very reasonable pricing and is easy to setup. See how to add it to a Rails application here. Currently only...

#286 Draper


4 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Clean up complex view logic using Draper. This gem provides decorators (much like presenters) which bundles view logic in an object oriented fashion. In...

#285 Spork


4 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Spork improves the loading time of your test suite by starting up your Rails application once in the background. Use it with Guard for the ultimate combo...

#284 Active Admin


5 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Active Admin allows you to quickly build an admin interface with just a few commands. Not only does it look great, but it is very customizable as shown...