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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.

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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.

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Episode 17 - Escaping multi-word searches

Bddcasts - 2010-05-08 - free

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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