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Generating PDFs in plain Ruby can be a lot of work. Instead, consider generating PDFs from HTML using PDFKit. Watch this screencast

Every good project needs a good setup. In this episode, I set up a github repo, create a new rails application, hook in Cucumber and Rspec, write a Cucumber feature, and write the code to make it pass. Watch this screencast

Launching a new series: URLAgg updates. We upgrade URLAgg to the latest gems and migrate from using config.gem to Gem Bundler. Watch this screencast

Maintainability of your code can be measured in many different ways. Jake Scruggs has combined several of the tools that measure you code into one Ruby Gem: metric_fu. Here's a demonstration. Go check it out! Watch this screencast

Rails 3 revolutionizes gem dependency management by including a new library called Bundler. This new system supersedes the old config.gem system that was built in to Rails 2. It provides all of the functionality of that system and a lot more — now you can be confident that the gems... Watch this screencast

Are you thinking about moving your application to Ruby 1.9? Do you have a gem or plugin you need to test in multiple Ruby versions? RVM is your tool. It allows you to manage and install multiple Ruby versions and the gems installed under each version. Watch this screencast

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

Bundler is the way to manage gem dependencies in Rails 3.0. Learn how to install gems and lock them down in this episode. 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