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#318 Upgrading to Rails 3.2

4 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Rails 3.2 sports many new features including automatic explain queries, tagged logging, key-value store in Active Record, improved migration generator and...

#320 Jbuilder

4 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Jbuilder provides a DSL for generating JSON. It includes a template engine which allows you to create complex responses with helpers and conditions....

#322 RABL

3 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
RABL - Ruby API Builder Language - provides a DSL for generating JSON or XML responses in a Ruby application. Learn how to share and configure complex JSON...

#324 Passing Data to JavaScript

3 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
There are a variety of ways to pass variables from a Rails application to JavaScript. Here I show three techniques: a script tag, a data attribute, and...

#326 ActiveAttr

3 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
ActiveAttr provides what Active Model left out. If you need to create a table-less model with features similar to Active Record, watch this episode....

#328 Twitter Bootstrap Basics

3 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Twitter Bootstrap can help make beautiful web apps quickly by providing you with useful CSS and JavaScript. Here you will learn how to include it into Rails...

#330 Better Sass with Bourbon

3 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
If you are tired of the browser vendor prefixes in CSS, check out Bourbon. It provides Sass mixins and functions to make CSS more convenient....

#332 Refinery CMS Basics

2 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
If you need to quickly create an informational site that can be easily edited, consider using a content management system. Here I show how to build a site...

#334 Compass & CSS Sprites

2 months ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Compass improves the Sass experience by providing useful mixins, functions, and more. You will also learn how to make CSS sprites with it in this episode...

#336 Copycopter

~1 month ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Copycopter provides a nice interface that clients can use to edit the text in a Rails application. Learn how to deploy a Copycopter server using Heroku...