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Episode 7 - Cucumber, part 2

Bddcasts - 2010-08-30 - paid

Finish getting all of URLAgg.com’s features to pass. This concludes the upgrade to Rails 3 and Rspec 2. Watch this screencast


Episode 6 - Cucumber, part 1

Bddcasts - 2010-08-30 - paid

Starting the work on getting all of URLAgg ’s features to pass. Upgrading authlogic, dealing with the new Rails 3 XSS protection, install the dynamic_form plugin. Watch this screencast


Polling for Changes

Railscasts - 2010-08-30 - free

If you have frequently changing data on the server side, it's helpful to automatically display this to the user as well. Here I show how to accomplish this with polling in jQuery. Watch this screencast


Meet Node.js Part I

Peepcode - 2010-08-23 - paid

The Web has seen at least four major advancements in browser technology, about once every five years. Ajax has been around for five years, and we’re at the next jump: persistent connections between server and client. Node.js makes it easy to write asynchronous, event-driven applications that serve static, dynamic, and... Watch this screencast


Sortable Table Columns

Railscasts - 2010-08-23 - free

Here I walk you through adding the ability to sort table columns in ascending or descending order by clicking the header. Watch this screencast


Episode 5 - Bundler mistakes

Bddcasts - 2010-08-22 - free

We correct how we are using bundler. Correcting the behavior breaks some specs and we clean them up. Watch this screencast


Episode 4 - Getting specs to pass, part 2

Bddcasts - 2010-08-21 - paid

We pick up where we left off in episode 3 and finish getting our specs to pass after upgrading to Rails 3 and RSpec 2. Watch this screencast


Episode 3 - Getting specs to pass, part 1

Bddcasts - 2010-08-18 - paid

We go over all of the specs that are failing due to the upgrade to Rails 3 and RSpec 2, making changes needed to get them to pass. Watch this screencast


Upgrading to Rails 3 Part 3

Railscasts - 2010-08-16 - free

Here we finish up this upgrade series by removing all deprecation warnings and fixing some problems in the view. Watch this screencast