Latest Screencasts (page 5)

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

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

Don’t want to take the time to create a layout for your new Ruby on Rails application? Don’t worry. Use the Themes plugin! In this screencast, I show you how to easily add a layout with built-in menus to your existing Rails application using only 1 line of code.

Pickle adds many convenient Cucumber steps for generating models. Also learn about table diffs in this episode.

Learn about some of the more advanced functionality of Formtastic including handling many-to-many associations, required fields, and styling.

Formtastic is a concise way to generate form views. In this episode (part 1 of 2) I show how to generate both a simple form and a more complex one which is customized with options.

Present a slick user interface for cropping image attachments using Jcrop and Paperclip.

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.

If you need to keep track of a model's history of changes and switch between versions, consider using the vestal_versions gem like I show in this episode.

Searchlogic makes searching models easier than ever with its assortment of named scopes. In this episode I show you how to create simple and advanced searches.