Latest Screencasts (page 8)

Jarin Udom shows how to set up a full Rails stack and deploy your app on a bare Ubuntu server in 10 minutes. Is he drunk? Find out! Bonus content: download the slides from this talk. Watch this screencast

Every few weeks or so, someone will see me type something like this into my URL bar … 1 # search apidock.com for "Fixnum" within Ruby 2 apirb Fixnum 3 4 # search GitHub for "twitter" 5 github twitter 6 7 # do a Google Local search for "Subway" in... Watch this screencast

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. Watch this screencast

Mutt is a great text-based email client I've been using recently. Mutt is very simple to use but still highly configurable. In this episode we will configure Mutt to use Gmail's IMAP interface to retrieve our email from Gmail. Check out the Mutt Wiki for lots of great info and... Watch this screencast

Uncle Bob walks and talks his way through the Prime Factors Kata. No music, but lots of commentary. Watch this screencast

With tap you can easily peek into chained methods. Watch this screencast

Continuing our series of ‘Same Kata, Different Languages,’ we have a very special performance in Python by Gary Bernhardt: Gary Bernhardt is an independent software contractor in Seattle specializing in the dynamic languages Python and Ruby. A brutal minimalist, he is bent on the destruction of all existing software except Emacs and Vim, the two One True Editors. Gary’s a [...] Watch this screencast

“Shoes is a cross-platform toolkit for writing graphical apps easily and artfully using Ruby.” Shoes is a friggin sweet framework for making GUI applications in Ruby. There are lots of GUI toolkits out there but none of them are as easy to get up and running with & distribute as... Watch this screencast

Sequel is an awesome Ruby library for working with databases. As opposed to ActiveRecord and DataMapper, which are based on working with model objects, Sequel is meant to be used to directly query a database, without needed to go through an object relational mapper. You can use models and associations... Watch this screencast

Cappuccino is a framework for building desktop-caliber applications that run in a web browser. Brian Chapados reviews the design concepts of Cappuccino and the underlying Objective-J language, shows how to get started, and builds a simple app for searching scientific literature databases. This talk was part of the DjangoSD/SD Ruby mashup meeting. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk. Watch this screencast