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Episode 98: Request Profiling

almost 4 years ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
You can use profiling to determine where the performance bottlenecks are in specific Rails actions. Watch this episode for details....

Episode 99: Complex Partials

almost 4 years ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
How do you handle partials which have differences depending on the action which is rendering them? Here's three suggestions for this problem....

Episode 100: 5 View Tips

almost 4 years ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Here's five quick tips to use in views. Be sure to catch the end of the episode where I reveal an exciting contest!...

Episode 101: Refactoring Out Helper Object

almost 4 years ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
If you have complex view logic, this can easily lead to helper methods which call each other. See how to refactor this out into another object in this episode...

Episode 102: Auto-Complete Association

almost 4 years ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Usually a select menu is used for setting a belongs_to association, but in this episode I will show you how to use a text field with auto completion....

Episode 103: Site Wide Announcements

almost 4 years ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Sometimes you need to display an administrative announcement to every page on the site and give the users the ability to hide the announcement. See how...

Episode 104: Exception Notifications

almost 4 years ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
If you're running a production site, it's a good idea to record all exceptions which occur. See how to set up a notification system which does that in this...

Episode 105: Gitting Rails 2.1 RC1

over 3 years ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Rails 2.1 Release Candidate 1 was just released! In this episode I will show you how to install it into your Rails project....

Episode 106: Time Zones in Rails 2.1

over 3 years ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
In the past, time zones have been very difficult to work with, but no longer! Rails 2.1 brings with it great time zone support as you can see in this episode...

Episode 107: Migrations in Rails 2.1

over 3 years ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Migrations now have a timestamp as there version number in Rails 2.1. In this episode I will explain this change as well as show you some other cool additions...