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Includes minor updates for Rails 2! If you purchased the previous version, you can re-download it by logging in to your account. Ruby on Rails has received a lot of press in the past few years. This 76 minute screencast teaches you the basics of Rails. If you’ve done PHP,...

Capistrano 2 is a tool for automating the deployment of your application to a server. You can also automate many other monotonous server-maintenance tasks. It is written in Ruby but can be used to deploy any kind of web application. This 50 minute screencast talks about the concepts behind Capistrano...

by Geoffrey Grosenbach If you’re a beginning Rails developer, this is the book for you! Seventeen chapters show how applications are often written (the wrong way). Then, we show you how it should be done correctly. It’s more than just a checklist, it’s a tour of well-built applications that will...

by Geoffrey Grosenbach. Technical editing by Git Maintainer Junio C Hamano. The git source code control system was developed by Linus Torvalds for managing the Linux kernel. But it’s also valuable for managing all kinds of code: libraries, web applications, personal files. Git was built for the modern developer’s workflow....

Sometimes your web application can be slow. Or you have a surge of traffic. Or you want to run your site on slow hardware or a shared host. For those times you need caching. Ruby on Rails comes with page, action, and fragment caching built-in. You can use these techniques...

by Geoffrey Grosenbach with content from Zed Shaw, author of Mongrel. Programmers love performance. We like to talk about it and form theories, but we don’t know how to measure it. And when we do, we don’t know what to do with the numbers we get. This screencast shows how...

by Geoffrey Grosenbach. Technical consulting by Prototype Core Team Member Justin Palmer. Did your first few years of Javascript programming consist of “copy” and “paste”? It’s time to learn it right! Javascript is a highly dynamic language with many interesting features which most developers never learn. Yet familiarity with Javascript...

by Geoffrey Grosenbach. Technical consulting by Justin Palmer of the Prototype core team. If you’ve been on the web anytime over the past two years, you’ve probably heard the word ‘Ajax.’ This highly anticipated hour and a half-long screencast takes up where Javascript with Prototype left off. You’ll learn how...