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In this screencast Renzo Borgatti introduces MacRuby, a Mac OS X implementation of the Ruby language. After a brief introduction and some examples from the command line, Renzo guides us in building an application with Xcode and, finally, with HotCocoa, an idiomatic library that allows us to program graphical interfaces... Watch this screencast

The Cucumber behavior-driven development framework is appreciated by developers from many languages. It makes it easy to write plain-text stories that run executable Ruby code against your application. In this hour and ten minute screencast, you’ll learn the basics of Cucumber. You’ll learn the syntax, organization, and philosophy of writing... Watch this screencast

Rack::Payment lets you add 5 lines of code to your Rails (or any Rack-based) application and you can start accepting single payments! Let’s say you have an online store and you want to accept credit card payments. You can require rack-payment in your application: 1 # config/environment.rb 2 3 Rails::Initializer.run... Watch this screencast

“Shoes is a cross-platform toolkit for writing graphical apps easily and artfully using Ruby.” Shoes is a friggin sweet framework for making GUI applications in Ruby. There are lots of GUI toolkits out there but none of them are as easy to get up and running with & distribute as... Watch this screencast

Sequel is an awesome Ruby library for working with databases. As opposed to ActiveRecord and DataMapper, which are based on working with model objects, Sequel is meant to be used to directly query a database, without needed to go through an object relational mapper. You can use models and associations... Watch this screencast

At Dev Fu!, we started coding all of our new applications using DataMapper a few months back. For awhile, we were waiting for Rails 3 to be released (which has DataMapper support baked in), but we realized we were preventing ourselves from using a tool that we love (and prefer... Watch this screencast

PHD gives you Passenger-based Heroku-like Deployment. Having been spoiled by Heroku for some time, I love being able to run 2 commands from a git repository to deploy an application: 1 $ heroku create my-app 2 $ git push heroku master If you have Passenger installed on a server, you... Watch this screencast

I wanted to get started with Facebook development, so I made a little badge: Facebook Github Badge In this screencast, I walk through the basics of creating something similar. We … setup a Facebook application get it setup so we can test it (running on our local computer) render HTML... Watch this screencast

Forms are crucial to how users interact with your site. You can slap a form on a web page in record time with Rails, but basic forms just get you by. For a better user experience, you'll want to customize your forms and create interplay between your models. Learn how to take your forms to the next level from Ryan Bates, one of the most experienced Rails programmers (and screencasters) in the community. Watch this screencast

Now that GemCutter is becoming the standard host for gems, deploying gems couldn’t be easier! We no longer need tools like hoe, newgem, bones, jeweler or others. Sure, these tools may still be useful, but we don’t need them to create simple gems! Let’s say you have a Ruby file... Watch this screencast