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Episode 2 - Upgrading to Rails 3

Bddcasts - 2010-07-25 - paid

We upgrade the URLAgg project to Rails 3 and get the Rails console and server to load and run all the specs. Watch this screencast


Episode 1 - Moving to Bundler

Bddcasts - 2010-05-17 - free

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


Episode 17 - Escaping multi-word searches

Bddcasts - 2010-05-08 - free

We escape multi-word search terms before querying Google Blog Search. Watch this screencast


Episode 16 - Refactoring searches

Bddcasts - 2010-04-27 - paid

We refactor the association between Brand and Search so we don’t run the search for duplicate search terms. Watch this screencast


Episode 14 - Filtering Search Results

Bddcasts - 2010-01-13 - paid

We add the capability to filter search results based on the brand they belong to and the source they came from. Watch this screencast


Episode 13 - Google blog search - part 2

Bddcasts - 2009-12-09 - paid

We add logic to avoid fetching duplicate search results from Google Blog search. Watch this screencast


We remove duplicates from our Twitter search results by remembering the ID of the last result and only fetching tweets that have occurred since then. Watch this screencast


We add pagination using will_paginate to the search results fetched from Twitter. Watch this screencast


Episode 9 - The Dashboard - part 1

Bddcasts - 2009-10-15 - paid

We take the search results that were fetched using Twitter in episode 8 and display them on the dashboard. Watch this screencast


Episode 8 - Searching Twitter

Bddcasts - 2009-10-12 - paid

We work through hitting Twitter Search using the search terms we created in episode 6 and episode 7. Watch this screencast