Latest Screencasts (page 2)

If you need pagination in Rails 3 try out Kaminari. It is a clean, flexible solution which uses scopes to flow nicely with Active Record queries. Did I mention it also works with Mongoid?

With HTML5 and CSS3 on the rise, we’d like to use it more frequently in our projects. Just a few lines of CSS3 can now take the place of background images, sprites, and complex div structures which aren’t semantic. Unfortunately, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 do not have...

Haml is the brain child of Hampton Catlin. In this screencast we’re going to show how Haml can simplify your markup and speed up front-end development. As developers we naturally gravitate towards products or languages that help keep our work clean and organized. Haml is just one of those things....

Ben Hughes shows off message_block, a gem which simplifies generating flash and error messages. Additionally, Ben discusses how to test gem development using Cucumber and Cukigem. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

People are drawn to Ruby by its beautiful syntax, and CoffeeScript brings that same joie de vivre to Javascript. John Lynch shares his experience using CoffeeScript for both web and mobile app development. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Patrick Crowley dives into the world of mobile app development and shows how to use the jQTouch framework to quickly build awesome mobile-optimized web apps. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Steve Ross gives an introduction to behavior driven development using Ruby, Cucumber, and rSpec. This is a practical how-to for developers who have not yet integrated behavior driven development into their workflow. Bonus content: download slides and view notes from this talk.

Password authentication is not too complicated to make from scratch, it will also help to get a better understanding of how it works.

OmniAuth is an easy way to add many different authentication services to your app. In this episode we start integrating it with Devise.

Sinatra has a really nice DSL. You can fake the basics of the DSL with some simple Rack middleware created by metaprogramming. If you like the screencasts, please give $5 to help me get to RubyConf Download (64.2 MB) Download iPhone & iPod (35.6 MB)