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RailsCasts #263 Client Side Validations

Railscasts - 2011-04-25 - free

Showing validation errors inline as the user is filling out the form can lead to a better use experience. Learn how to do this using the Client Side Validations gem.

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RailsCasts #191 Mechanize

Railscasts - 2009-12-07 - free

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

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RailsCasts #180 Finding Unused CSS

Railscasts - 2009-09-21 - free

Over time a CSS file can become large and filled with unused selectors. In this episode I show how to use the Deadweight gem to determine which CSS selects you can remove.

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RailsCasts #178 7 Security Tips

Railscasts - 2009-09-07 - free

Security is important! Here I show seven different security flaws which are common to Rails applications ranging from mass assignment to CSRF protection.

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RailsCasts #173 Screen Scraping with ScrAPI

Railscasts - 2009-08-03 - free

Screen scraping is not pretty, but sometimes it's your only option to extract content from an external site. In this episode I show you how to fetch product prices using ScrAPI.

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RailsCasts #160 Authlogic

Railscasts - 2009-05-04 - free

Authentication can get very complex. In this episode I show how Authlogic can handle this complexity while you stay in control of how it is presented to the user.

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RailsCasts #149 Rails Engines

Railscasts - 2009-02-16 - free

Rails 2.3 brings us much of the same functionality as the Rails Engines plugin. Learn how to embed one application into another in this episode.

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RailsCasts #141 PayPal Basics

Railscasts - 2008-12-22 - free

This episode is the first in a series on handling the checkout process for orders. Here we show how to complete purchases through PayPal's Website Payments Standard service.

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RailsCasts #123 Subdomains

Railscasts - 2008-08-18 - free

Learn how to unleash the full potential of subdomains with the subdomain-fu Rails plugin in this episode.

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RailsCasts #103 Site Wide Announcements

Railscasts - 2008-04-28 - free

Sometimes you need to display an administrative announcement to every page on the site and give the users the ability to hide the announcement. See how in this episode.

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