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Episode 188: Declarative Authorization

over 2 years ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Declarative authorization provides an advanced and powerful solution for role based authorization....

#296 Mercury Editor

7 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Mercury allows you to edit a section of HTML directly in the web browser through a WISYIWYG editor. Here I show how to integrate Mercury into a Rails app...

Episode 261: Testing JavaScript with Jasmine

~1 year ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Are you testing your JavaScript? Learn how to add specs using Jasmine. This episode also covers jQuery integration with jasmine-jquery....

Episode 56: The Logger

almost 5 years ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Learn all about the logger in this episode. See how to send messages to the log and how to customize it....

Episode 55: Cleaning Up the View

almost 5 years ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
This episode starts off with a big, messy template. Watch as this code shrinks and becomes more readable while the interface stays the same....

Episode 54: Debugging with ruby-debug

almost 5 years ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts. [Linked from: Mike Does Tech]
This episode will show you how to debug a rails app using ruby-debug: set a breakpoint, inspect variables, change the code and more....

Episode 53: Handling Exceptions

almost 5 years ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
When an exception is raised in development you get the full error along with the stack trace. In production, only a simple message is displayed. Learn why...

Episode 52: Update through Checkboxes

almost 5 years ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
See how to select multiple items using checkboxes and perform an action on the selected items in this episode....

Episode 51: will_paginate

almost 5 years ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
In edge rails (soon to be Rails 2.0), the built-in pagination has been moved into a plugin: classic_pagination. I recommend jumping over to the will_paginate...

Episode 50: Contributing to Rails

almost 5 years ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
The best way to contribute to the Rails project is to submit a patch. This episode shows how to do exactly that. There's also a surprise at the end that...