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 243: Beanstalkd and Stalker


~1 year ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Beanstalk is a fast and easy way to queue background tasks. Stalker provides a nice wrapper interface for creating these jobs....

Episode 242: Thor


~1 year ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Thor is an alternative to Rake. It has better support for command line arguments and provides a way to add global scripts....

Episode 241: Simple Omniauth


~1 year ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Authentication is incredibly simple to add with just OmniAuth if you don't need username/password or multiple authentications per user....

Episode 240: Search, Sort, Paginate with AJAX


~1 year ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Many administration pages have search, sorting, and pagination on the index page. See how to add all of this including AJAX....

Episode 239: ActiveRecord::Relation Walkthrough


~1 year ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
The new Active Record query methods in Rails 3 might seem like magic at first. But in this episode I unravel how it works by browsing the Rails 3 source...

Episode 238: Mongoid


over 1 year ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Mongoid is a polished, high-level Ruby gem for accessing MongoDB. Here I cover installation, adding fields, validations, associations, and keys....

Episode 237: Dynamic attr_accessible


over 1 year ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
It is important to use attr_accessible for security with mass assignment, but what if you need it to be dynamic based on user permissions? See how in this...

Episode 236: OmniAuth Part 2


over 1 year ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
In this episode we continue our look at integrating OmniAuth with devise. Here I show how to set up new users with validations....

Episode 235: OmniAuth Part 1


over 1 year ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
OmniAuth is an easy way to add many different authentication services to your app. In this episode we start integrating it with Devise....

Episode 234: Simple Form


over 1 year ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Simple Form is a convenient way to generate forms with many options to customize the generated markup....