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This episode finishes up this series on Rails 2.3. Here you will learn about several smaller additions in 2.3. Watch this screencast

Rails 2.1 brings some new caching features which makes it very easy to cache any values including models. See how in this episode. Watch this screencast

Several methods in rails take a hash of options as the last argument. If you are passing the same options to several methods, you can remove this duplication by using with_options. Learn all about it in this episode. Watch this screencast

Learn how to use the trusty strftime method to format a time, and see how Rails allows you to save this format for later use. Watch this screencast

Learn how to use the very useful group_by method to group an array by anything you want! In this episode I group an array of tasks by month then sort it properly. Watch this screencast

Have you ever wanted to visually line up items in rows and columns? The in_groups_of method makes this a cinch. Just watch out for the gotcha. Watch this screencast

It may have a goofy syntax, but the Symbol#to_proc feature Rails adds allows you to do simple blocks very quickly and easily. Watch this screencast