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Having two gems that require different versions of the same dependency can sometimes cause runtime errors. Yehuda Katz and Carl Lereche have created an elegant solution in the Gem Bundler. Watch this screencast

“Shoes is a cross-platform toolkit for writing graphical apps easily and artfully using Ruby.” Shoes is a friggin sweet framework for making GUI applications in Ruby. There are lots of GUI toolkits out there but none of them are as easy to get up and running with & distribute as... Watch this screencast

Scott Motte introduces us to the document-oriented database MongoDB and shows how to use MongoDB as an alternative to MySQL and ActiveRecord using the MongoMapper gem. This talk was part of the DjangoSD/SD Ruby mashup meeting. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk. Watch this screencast

CanCan is a simple authorization plugin that offers a lot off flexibility. See how to use it in this episode. Watch this screencast

Now that GemCutter is becoming the standard host for gems, deploying gems couldn’t be easier! We no longer need tools like hoe, newgem, bones, jeweler or others. Sure, these tools may still be useful, but we don’t need them to create simple gems! Let’s say you have a Ruby file... Watch this screencast

Declarative authorization provides an advanced and powerful solution for role based authorization. Watch this screencast

Gemcutter is a new service for hosting RubyGems, and Jeweler provides an automated way to release versions of a gem. Watch this screencast

Learn how to save data such as bank information, social security number, or other sensitive information in your Rails application securely by encrypting the data. By using spikex's gem Strongbox, you can use private and public keys to secure your data in your database to where you must have the password to decrypt them. Watch this screencast

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. Watch this screencast

"This gem provides a Random singleton class with a series of methods for generating random test data including names, mailing addresses, dates, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and text." - Mike Subelsky Watch this screencast