RailsCasts (Mobile)
Summary: Every other week you will be treated to a new, free 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. A Pro option is also available containing more screencasts each week. This version is for mobile devices which cannot support the full resolution version.
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- Artist: Ryan Bates
Podcasts:
In this episode I walk you through an exercise in refactoring by taking a long method and making it more concise.
Sometimes you only want to cache a section of a page instead of the entire page. Fragment caching is the answer as shown in this episode.
Page caching is an efficient way to cache stateless content. In this episode I will show you how to cache the dynamic javascript we created last week.
See how to dynamically change a select menu based on another select menu using Javascript. In this episode everything is kept client side which leads to a more responsive user interface.
See how to easily generate and link to an RSS feed using new features in Rails 2.0. Watch this episode or details.
Have you ever wanted to easily log all variables? Now you can by using some advanced Ruby concepts as shown in this episode.
Application configuration shouldn't be spread throughout your code base. Instead a much better place to put it is an external YAML file. See how to do that in this episode.
In Rails 1.2 the default session store is file based. This is inefficient and difficult to maintain. In Rails 2.0 the default is now cookie based which has several benefits as you will see in this episode.
Migrations are now sexy in Rails 2.0! In this episode we will take a look at these improvements and the related rake tasks.
Rails 2.0 offers an extremely easy way to do HTTP basic authentication. See how in this episode.
In Rails 2.0, fixtures see many improvements which makes them much easier to manage. Watch this episode for details.
Rails 2.0 is almost here. One of the many features in this release is the smarter helper methods which can make your views much cleaner. Learn all about it in this Episode.
This more advanced episode will show you how to dynamically generate named routes by adding a method to the map object.
In this episode I will show you how to create PDF documents using the excellent PDF::Writer gem.
If the user has JavaScript disabled, the "Destroy" link might not work properly. In this episode I will explore a number of ways to work around this issue.
