Latest Screencasts

Guard watches files and runs a command after a file is modified. This allows you to automatically run tests in the background, restart your development server, reload the browser, and more.

Metric Fu, Metrical, SimpleCov, Rails Best Practices, and more are covered in this episode on metrics.

Creating new gems is easy with the `bundle gem` command. In this episode I will walk you through how this works.

Gravatar is a service for providing user avatars. See how easy it is to use in Rails in this episode.

Thor is an alternative to Rake. It has better support for command line arguments and provides a way to add global scripts.

Generators in Rails 3 have been rewritten to use Thor which means the code used to create a generator is quite different. Here you will learn the new way to make generators in Rails 3.

Here I show several of my favorite web applications which I found most helpful as a Ruby developer over the past year.

Mechanize extends the power of Nokogiri allowing you to interact with multiple pages on the site: click links, submit forms, etc.

Screen scraping is easy with Nokogiri and SelectorGadget.

Gemcutter is a new service for hosting RubyGems, and Jeweler provides an automated way to release versions of a gem.