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.
#273 Geocoder
7 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
If you need to work with geographic data, Geocoder is an excellent gem for converting addresses and coordinates, finding nearby locations, determining distances...
#272 Markdown with Redcarpet
7 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Redcarpet is an easy-to-use gem which interprets Markdown. Here I show how to customize it and add syntax highlighting through Pygments and Albino....
#271 Resque
8 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Resque creates background jobs using Redis. It supports multiple queue and comes with an administration interface for monitoring and managing the queues...
#270 Authentication in Rails 3.1
8 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Here I show off three new features in Rails 3.1 that will help with authentication: easier HTTP Basic, SecurePassword in the database, and forcing SSL....
#269 Template Inheritance
8 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
In Rails 3.1 the controller inheritance also applies to the view layer. Here I show how to add an application template which is shared by all views, and...
#268 Sass Basics
8 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Sass extends CSS with variables, nesting, mixins and more. Here I show how to convert plain CSS to SCSS in a Rails 3.1 app....
#267 CoffeeScript Basics
9 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
CoffeeScript allows you to write JavaScript in a concise, elegant fashion. Here I convert JavaScript code to CoffeeScript in a Rails 3.1 app....
#266 HTTP Streaming
9 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
HTTP Streaming allows the browser to start processing the HTML response while the Rails app is still processing the rest of the request....
#265 Rails 3.1 Overview
9 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
This is the first episode in a series covering Rails 3.1. Here I show how to install the beta and show some of the new features....
Episode 264: Guard
9 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Guard watches files and runs a command after a file is modified. This allows you to automatically run tests in the background, restart your development...
