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 229: Polling for Changes
4 days ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
If you have frequently changing data on the server side, it's helpful to automatically display this to the user as well. Here I show how to accomplish this...
Episode 228: Sortable Table Columns
11 days ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Here I walk you through adding the ability to sort table columns in ascending or descending order by clicking the header....
Episode 227: Upgrading to Rails 3 Part 3
18 days ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Here we finish up this upgrade series by removing all deprecation warnings and fixing some problems in the view....
Episode 226: Upgrading to Rails 3 Part 2
25 days ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Here we continue upgrading an application to Rails 3 by getting our specs up and running and going through the rails_upgrade plugin....
Episode 225: Upgrading to Rails 3 Part 1
~1 month ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
In the first part of this series on upgrading a Rails 2 application to Rails 3, we'll start off by setting up Rails 3.0 Release Candidate in a clean environment...
Episode 224: Controllers in Rails 3
~1 month ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Embedded flash notices, permanent cookies, and the details of respond_with are in this episode....
Episode 223: Charts
~1 month ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
There are a number of libraries to help create graphs. Here I show how to integrate Highcharts into a Rails app....
Episode 222: Rack in Rails 3
~1 month ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
The router in Rails 3 is fully compatible with Rack. Learn how to embed Sinatra into an app, handle redirects, and improve on Rails Metal....
Episode 221: Subdomains in Rails 3
2 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
It is now possible to add subdomains to Rails 3 without the use of additional plugins. Learn how in this episode....
Episode 220: PDFKit
2 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Generating PDFs in plain Ruby can be a lot of work. Instead, consider generating PDFs from HTML using PDFKit....
