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In our Ruby developer career there may come a time when we have to deploy our app with other versions of Ruby. We may also take a fancy to implementations such as MacRuby, and want to try them out. However, installing many different versions of Ruby on the same box...

In a previous episode, Using ActiveRecord with Sinatra, we showed you how to use ActiveRecord and Sinatra to build a URL shortener. We showed how to get ActiveRecord up and running in your Sinatra application, and now in this screencast, we'll show you the various ways on how to configure...

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...

Welcome to the Introduction to Sinatra screencast. You may also be interested in our Introduction to Haml screencast, as we will be using some Haml in this video. You might be surprised to find out that if you search on Google for “Sinatra”, the first result is not Ol’ Blue...

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...

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....