RailsCasts show

RailsCasts

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 is the full resolution version, a lower reoslution for mobile devices is also available.

Podcasts:

 #196 Nested Model Form Part 1 | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 11:09

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 fields.

 #195 My Favorite Web Apps in 2009 | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 6:26

Here I show several of my favorite web applications which I found most helpful as a Ruby developer over the past year.

 #194 MongoDB and MongoMapper | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 13:13

MongoDB is a document based database engine. Learn how to access it through MongoMapper in this episode.

 #193 Tableless Model | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 8:28

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.

 #192 Authorization with CanCan | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 15:57

CanCan is a simple authorization plugin that offers a lot of flexibility. See how to use it in this episode.

 #191 Mechanize | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 10:16

Mechanize extends the power of Nokogiri allowing you to interact with multiple pages on the site: click links, submit forms, etc.

 #190 Screen Scraping with Nokogiri | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 13:34

Screen scraping is easy with Nokogiri and SelectorGadget.

 #189 Embedded Association | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 14:03

Learn how to set up a one-to-many or many-to-many association which is entirely embedded into a single column through a string or bitmask.

 #188 Declarative Authorization | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 15:27

Declarative authorization provides an advanced and powerful solution for role based authorization.

 #187 Testing Exceptions | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 10:01

Sometimes bad code slips into production and triggers a 500 error. Learn how to be notified of this and resolve it through integration tests.

 #186 Pickle with Cucumber | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 16:43

Pickle adds many convenient Cucumber steps for generating models. Also learn about table diffs in this episode.

 #185 Formtastic Part 2 | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 9:11

Learn about some of the more advanced functionality of Formtastic including handling many-to-many associations, required fields, and styling.

 #184 Formtastic Part 1 | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 10:41

Formtastic is a concise way to generate form views. In this episode (part 1 of 2) I show how to generate both a simple form and a more complex one which is customized with options.

 #183 Gemcutter & Jeweler | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 7:24

Gemcutter is a new service for hosting RubyGems, and Jeweler provides an automated way to release versions of a gem.

 #182 Cropping Images | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 14:07

Present a slick user interface for cropping image attachments using Jcrop and Paperclip.

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