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Spree allows you to quickly turn a Rails project into a full eCommerce application. Here I show how to set it up and configure the look and feel of the store.

You can get cassandra at cassandra.apache.org and the ruby gem by running: gem install cassandra I did run into a problem with the trift_client gem when installing. If you get a Load Error, run this. sudo chmod 644 /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thrift_client-0.6.3/lib/thrift_client/*.rb sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thrift_client-0.6.3/lib/thrift_client/connection Here are some of the Cassandra commands from the video: #connects to [...]

With the recent release of the Google Plus beta (ask me for an invite if you want one), I felt it appropriate to show a simple way to create a Like or +1 button for your Rails application. The app and concept is pretty simple, so I won’t worry about posting the code below. Install: [...]

Guard watches files and runs a command after a file is modified. This allows you to automatically run tests in the background, restart your development server, reload the browser, and more.

The decent_exposure gem makes it convenient to share controller data with the view through methods instead of instance variables.

This is a basic demonstration of adding a rake task to Ruby on Rails. Some of the same principles apply to Rake in general. You also see how to call out to the command line and how to convert ERB and HTML to HAML.

Peter Gumeson shows off his compass-html5-boilerplate gem, which uses Compass to make it easier to integrate the HTML5 Boilerplate template into Rails apps.

Jonathan Badger explores Newick format trees, and how to manipulate them using his Newick-ruby gem. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Ian Young introduces his first gem, a human-friendly DSL for regular expressions. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Undo and redo behavior is easy to add with a versioning gem such as Paper Trail. Learn how to add an undo link to any model's flash message.