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In this screencast we'll create a URL shortener in Ruby with Sinatra. We're going to show you how to integrate ActiveRecord with a Sinatra application. You'll need this regular expression to follow along: /^\b((?:https?:\/\/)(?:[^\s()<>]+|\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\))+(?:\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\)|[^\s`!()\[\]{};:'".,<>?«»“”‘’]))$/ What you'll learn How to integrate ActiveRecord in to Sinatra with sinatra-activerecord How to build a...

To mark AJAX's birthday on 18th March, we've put together a screencast to show you how to create your very own AJAX-updating countdown website for the big day. We're using Haml, Sinatra and jQuery to do this and recommend you look at our introduction videos if you're not familiar with...

In this video tutorial we’ll cover how to use Haml in a new Rails project, how to integrate it into an existing project, and how to convert any pre-existing ERB templates into Haml. If you’re new to Haml, we recommend you first watch our Introduction to Haml screencast. Links Introduction...

In this screencast we’re going to show how Sass can simplify, structure and speed up your styling workflow. Like Haml, Sass is the brain child of Hampton Catlin and stands for Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets. And it lives up to it’s name, Sass stylesheets are awesome! Watch this screencast to find...

Haml is the brain child of Hampton Catlin. In this screencast we’re going to show how Haml can simplify your markup and speed up front-end development. As developers we naturally gravitate towards products or languages that help keep our work clean and organized. Haml is just one of those things....