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 200: Rails 3 Beta and RVM
7 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Get started with Rails 3.0 Beta and install Ruby 1.9.1 using RVM: Ruby Version Manager. Stay tuned to the end for a challenge on giving back to open source...
Episode 199: Mobile Devices
7 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Change the look and behavior of a Rails app on mobile devices. Also use jQTouch to build a native-looking interface....
Episode 198: Edit Multiple Individually
7 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Use checkboxes to edit multiple records in one form, where each one has an individual set of form fields....
Episode 197: Nested Model Form Part 2
7 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Add and remove nested model fields dynamically through JavaScript using either Prototype or jQuery....
Episode 196: Nested Model Form Part 1
8 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Handling multiple models in a single form is much easier with the accepts_nested_attributes_for method. See how to use this method to handle nested model...
Episode 195: My Favorite Web Apps in 2009
8 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Here I show several of my favorite web applications which I found most helpful as a Ruby developer over the past year....
Episode 194: MongoDB and MongoMapper
8 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
MongoDB is a document based database engine. Learn how to access it through MongoMapper in this episode....
Episode 193: Tableless Model
8 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
If you want to create a model without a database backend, you simply need to define a couple methods in the model like I show in this episode....
Episode 192: Authorization with CanCan
8 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
CanCan is a simple authorization plugin that offers a lot off flexibility. See how to use it in this episode....
Episode 191: Mechanize
9 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Mechanize extends the power of Nokogiri allowing you to interact with multiple pages on the site: click links, submit forms, etc....
