Latest Screencasts (page 5)

See Part I for an introduction and a full listing of all episodes in the series. In this screencast: we discover that our helpers are shared between all applications (bad!), so we make them unique to each application we add support to use Rack middleware we review some updates that...

I’ve been recording my screencast mini-series on Building your own Sinatra clone and I realized … some people out there still haven’t used Sinatra! Hey you! Ruby developer who hasn’t used Sinatra! This is for you :) This should get you up and running with Sinatra, if you haven’t used...

See Part I for an introduction and a full listing of all episodes in the series. In this screencast, we start adding helper methods like #request, #response, and #params. We also create a Responder to that the main application and response blocks (eg. get(){ ... }) are evaluated in different...

See Part I for an introduction and a full listing of all episodes in the series. In this screencast, we test-drive the creation a new SinatraClone library. We re-implement most of the features prototyped in Part I, but now using a real, organized library. To view this screencast, visit http://remi.org/2009/03/31/building-your-own-sinatra-clone-part-2.html...

Have you ever wanted to build your own web framework? Do you want to learn howto create Rack applications? The first time I found out about Sinatra, I had already created my own Rack-based web framework and I wasn’t particularly interested in Sinatra. It’s really just a pretty DSL for...

Part 3 in my screencast mini-series on Rack … checkout parts 1 and 2: Part I: Rack Basics Part II: Rackup files, Rack::Request, Rack::Response, and more In Part 3, we cover: What is Rack middleware? How to write your own Rack middleware How to use your Rack middleware from any...

This is a follow up to my first Rack screencast, Rack Basics. In this screencast, we cover a bit more of the basics. Instead of playing around in an IRB shell, we create an executable Rack application using a Rackup file (the conventional way to run Rack applications). We use...

If you’re a Ruby programmer and you’ve never directly used Rack before then this screencast is for you. This introduces you to the very basics of Rack. If you’ve used Rack before and / or you’ve very comfortable with the basics, watch for some additional Rack screencasts coming from me....

Does your web application have an ActiveResource-based API, or are you thinking of creating one? Testing your API’s client library can be a pain - it has to hit a real, running version of your application. ActiveResource gives us a way to mock its HTTP calls, via HttpMock but it’s...

A follow up to Introducing AuxCodes, this part shows you howto use AuxCodes in your Rails applications. This part introduces some of the basics of aux_codes for anyone who watches this and doesn’t watch Part I. Check this out if you’re interested in a way to maintain enum-like data in...