Latest Screencasts (page 6)

Browser page history and bookmarks do not usually work with AJAX requests, but in this episode I show you how to remedy this problem using a simple jQuery plugin.

Screen scraping is not pretty, but sometimes it's your only option to extract content from an external site. In this episode I show you how to fetch product prices using ScrAPI.

Learn how to create a simple plugin using Ruby on Rails. This video will teach you how to turn a view helper into it’s own plugin, and extend the ActionView::Base.

Is there a long running task which should be handled in the background? One of the best ways is using the delayed_job plugin like I show in this episode.

Learn how to apply OpenID to an existing Authlogic setup as I show in this episode. This builds upon the app from episode 160.

Learn two different techniques for parsing an RSS feed using Feedzirra in this episode!

Cron is great for handling recurring tasks, but it is an external dependency with a crazy syntax. In this episode I show you how to use Whenever to create cron jobs with Ruby.

Jim Rea will demonstrate Track Magic, a plugin for Panorama that allows Rails developers to interact directly with Rails databases on the desktop without a browser.

Michael Madrid discusses Styleact (a Facebook application) and how to develop Facebook apps using Ruby on Rails and the Facebooker plugin.

The acts_as_tree plugin provides many methods for handling a tree based association. In this episode I show how to build a navigation system with tabs, subpages, and breadcrumbs.