Latest Screencasts (page 3)

by Aaron Bedra of Relevance No one wants to wake up to an application that has been hacked. This 47-page PDF talks about common vulnerabilities found in Rails applications and how to solve them. After touching on common model and view vulnerabilities, Aaron takes you through a session with the...

RJS Templates are one of the most exciting parts of Rails 1.1. You can manipulate pages and use Ajax to its full extent without knowing Javascript! This 50 minute Quicktime video tutorial shows you how to use the basic RJS methods from scratch. You’ll be adding to your skills and...

Previously called MMS2R Web applications become much more useful when powered by the oldest communication technology on the Internet: email. This 60 page PDF shows how to use the MMS2R RubyGem to receive and parse email from both desktop clients and mobile devices. You’ll learn about:

By Geoffrey Grosenbach. Technical consultation from RSpec committer David Chelimsky. RSpec 1.1 introduces a new feature…user stories. You can now write plain-text stories that fit into the XP style of development. You can use stories written by customers to execute code against your application, or you may choose to use...

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...

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...