Latest Screencasts (page 24)

Searchlogic makes searching models easier than ever with its assortment of named scopes. In this episode I show you how to create simple and advanced searches. Watch this screencast

Adding static pages. We write the Cucumber feature, spec, then add the controller code and finally views. Watch this screencast

Bootstraping a Rails app. In this episode we get our environment set up. We generate a rails app, get our code cleaned up and pushed to github and install cucumber and rspec, making sure we can run features and specs. Watch this screencast

Browser page history and bookmarks do not usually work with AJAX requests, but in this episode I show you how to remedy this problem using a simple jQuery plugin. Watch this screencast

Learn an easy, unobtrusive way to add AJAX functionality to an existing set of pagination links using jQuery. Watch this screencast

Web designers and coders will be introduced to techniques to improve their results in CSS Positioning Best Practices. Beginning with a brief review of CSS, instructor Bill Weinman demonstrates how to position elements on a page using CSS instead of tables. He then goes step by step through the process... Watch this screencast

MySQL is by far the most popular database management system for small- to medium-sized web projects. In MySQL Essential Training, instructor Bill Weinman provides clear, concise instruction in the tools needed to create and maintain a database. Bill explores the different data types MySQL supports, and the functions it provides,... Watch this screencast

"A method that speeds methods up at the cost of memory" - Daniel J. Berger Watch this screencast

Screen scraping is not pretty, but sometimes it's your only option to extract content from an external site. In this episode I show you how to fetch product prices using ScrAPI. Watch this screencast

Learn how to create a simple plugin using Ruby on Rails. This video will teach you how to turn a view helper into it's own plugin, and extend the ActionView::Base. Watch this screencast