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.
Episode 253: CarrierWave File Uploads
12 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
CarrierWave makes it easy and clean to add file uploads to your application. It supports a variety of ORMs, frameworks and image processors....
Episode 252: Metrics Metrics Metrics
12 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Metric Fu, Metrical, SimpleCov, Rails Best Practices, and more are covered in this episode on metrics....
Episode 251: MetaWhere & MetaSearch
~1 year ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
MetaWhere provides a way to do complex find conditions without SQL in Active Record. MetaSearch makes it easy to create search forms with many find options...
Episode 250: Authentication from Scratch
~1 year ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Password authentication is not too complicated to make from scratch, it will also help to get a better understanding of how it works....
Episode 249: Notifications in Rails 3
~1 year ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Rails 3 comes with instrument support through the ActiveSupport::Notifications class. Call "subscribe" to listen to notifications, and "instrument" to send...
Episode 248: Offline Apps Part 2
~1 year ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Learn how to make a site usable offline with HTML 5 localStorage. This last part of the series covers jquery-tmpl and jquery-offline....
Episode 247: Offline Apps Part 1
~1 year ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Learn how to make a site usable offline through an HTML 5 cache manifest. This first part of the series covers rack-offline and problems you may run into...
Episode 246: AJAX History State
~1 year ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
The new pushState function in JavaScript allows us to change the full URL with AJAX. This means the back button, reloading, and bookmark support can be...
Episode 245: New Gem with Bundler
~1 year ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Creating new gems is easy with the `bundle gem` command. In this episode I will walk you through how this works....
Episode 244: Gravatar
~1 year ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Gravatar is a service for providing user avatars. See how easy it is to use in Rails in this episode....
