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In this installment in the Delicious Clone, we use CanCan to set some permissions on the Bookmarks Controller. Next week, we’ll finish the bookmark creation process and the following, we’ll add styling with SASS.

Because I’m going to be testing in cucumber sections of the site that require a user to be logged in, I decided to get it out of the way. So, in this video, I write a cucumber feature to test login and round it off with a few tests on the devise generated user model [...]

Here is what I’ve done to create this application: Use the ‘rails new’ command to create a rails application Set up the Gemfile Configure the Database Install Cucumber Install Rspec Install Devise Install CanCan Install jQuery Configure Devise Download (HD) 84.2 MB Download (iPod & iPhone) 47.4 MB

This video goes over some issues that popped up while upgrading a Rails 3 application to the Release Candidate This video goes over some issues that popped up while upgrading a Rails 3 application to the Release Candidate.

The second part of the tutorial for building a blog with Ruby on Rails version 3. We demonstrate how to set up some basic routes, manage the controller and views, and create a basic form for creating posts.

Every good project needs a good setup. In this episode, I set up a github repo, create a new rails application, hook in Cucumber and Rspec, write a Cucumber feature, and write the code to make it pass.

Launching a new series: URLAgg updates. We upgrade URLAgg to the latest gems and migrate from using config.gem to Gem Bundler.

Pickle adds many convenient Cucumber steps for generating models. Also learn about table diffs in this episode.

How to use Webrat and Selenium to test the parts of your application that rely on AJAX or some form of Javascript interaction with the user.

Installing and configuring Spork to make RSpec and Cucumber load specs and features faster.