Latest Screencasts (page 4)

People often ask me how to get started programming Ruby. Whether you’re an experienced programmer, or you’ve never programmed before, this screencast will hopefully give you a good introduction to how to program with Ruby. (see screencast below) Try Ruby! One of my favorite resources for learning Ruby is Try...

Why? If you have a Ruby web application that you want to use OpenID in, check out Rack::OpenID. If you … have lots of applications and you only want to implement one OpenID consumer OR … you have a web app running in an environment (like Google AppEngine) where OpenID...

I was looking for an easy way to add OpenID authentication to Rack applications and I found Rack::OpenID, a Rack middleware for OpenID. If you want to have a user redirected to their OpenID login, simply return: 1 [ 401, { 'WWW-Authenticate' => 'OpenID identity="my-open-id-url.com"' }, [] ] If you...

Rack::OAuth is a Rack middleware for easily integrating OAuth into your Ruby web applications. If you’re using a Sinatra application or Rackup file, all you need to do is: 1 use Rack::OAuth, :key => 'your-oauth-app-key', 2 :secret => 'your-oauth-app-secret', 3 :site => 'http://twitter-or-whatever.com' If you’re using Rails, all you need...

I was about to make a short screencast showing how to use a jQuery plugin I created when I realized … there are still web developers out there who haven’t used jQuery! So … developers who aren’t yet fully comfortable with jQuery … this one is for you! I show...

While at RailsConf this year, I got bored and coded up a Rack middleware for static caching. Rails has a way to staticly cache pages built-in but not all Ruby web frameworks do, so I figured this would make a good piece of middleware. ( Also, I knew that I...

After the Dev Fu! site was launched, one of the first responses the site received from Twitter was from fellow Phoenix Rubyist James Britt. James makes some really interesting and valid points. We chose Wordpress for Dev Fu because there are bagillions of free Wordpress templates available online and we...

Tonight, at the Phoenix Android meeting, someone asked if I knew any good Ruby / Rails web hosts. Something easy for someone who’s just learning Rails and wants to be able to essentially copy/paste their code to a server and have it “just work.” The first (and only) service that...

In my previous screencast, I showed you how you can get up and running quickly with Ruby on Windows. In this screencast, I show you how I think you can get up and running correctly with Ruby on Windows. With Ruby development, it’s generally assumed that the developer is on...

I’ve coded up some Ruby web applications, eg. little Sinatra apps / prototypes, for some developer friends of mine who are on Windows and haven’t used Ruby before. I wanted to show how easy it is to get up and running with Ruby quickly on Windows. NOTE: this isn’t the...