Latest Screencasts (page 8)

Need to add image attachments to a model? See how with paperclip in this episode.

MySQL (or Postgres) does a fine job when querying specific rows, but it’s not so great when it comes to searching on large text fields. Sphinx is a search service that makes full text searching quite easy and throws in extra features like boolean search (“rails OR merb”), word proximity,...

Creating a custom daemon to handle background tasks is surprisingly simple. In this episode I will make a daemon to handle dynamically scheduled tasks.

Need to run a task frequently in the background? Starling and Workling is a killer combination for doing just that. See how in this episode.

Patrick Crowley talks about Paperclip, a lightweight plugin for handling attachments. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Have you ever wanted to fill up a database with a lot of test data? See how to do that in this episode using the populator and faker gems.

Discover how to dynamically change the layout using content in the database. Check out this episode for details.

Jordan Fowler reveals his new Shadow plugin that tracks attribute and association changes to ActiveRecord objects, making it easy to create activity feeds for your application.

Learn how to unleash the full potential of subdomains with the subdomain-fu Rails plugin in this episode.

If you need a full text search engine, Thinking Sphinx is a great solution. See why in this episode.