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Text editor development has been stagnant for several years. It’s time for developers to take the text editing experience forward into the future! NOTE: This is beta software and doesn’t support some features like TextMate project files. It works only with self-contained directories on disk. NOTE: Use MacVim snapshot 55...

Showing validation errors inline as the user is filling out the form can lead to a better use experience. Learn how to do this using the Client Side Validations gem.

  CoffeeScript is now going to be a default installation with Ruby on Rails. So, I installed CoffeeScript and NodeJS and have been playing with it for the last hour or so. Here are the basics you need to know to use CoffeeScript including functions, arrays, hashes (objects), control functions (if, else, unless) and loops. [...]

In our Ruby developer career there may come a time when we have to deploy our app with other versions of Ruby. We may also take a fancy to implementations such as MacRuby, and want to try them out. However, installing many different versions of Ruby on the same box...

Wouldn't it be great to build an iPhone application without learning a line of Objective-C? Wouldn't it be great to put to use the skills you've already honed over the years as a web developer? In this screencast we'll show you how to build an iPhone app using JavaScript. We'll...

In this video tutorial we’ll cover how to use Haml in a new Rails project, how to integrate it into an existing project, and how to convert any pre-existing ERB templates into Haml. If you’re new to Haml, we recommend you first watch our Introduction to Haml screencast. Links Introduction...

The undo command is almost universally available in software today. Being able to rollback unwanted changes can be a real timesaver. In most applications you can only go backwards and forwards linearly, but Vim keeps your changes in a tree structure, which means that you can retrieve edits from distant branches in your history. This episode will show you how.

In this screencast we’re going to show how Sass can simplify, structure and speed up your styling workflow. Like Haml, Sass is the brain child of Hampton Catlin and stands for Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets. And it lives up to it’s name, Sass stylesheets are awesome! Watch this screencast to find...

Haml is the brain child of Hampton Catlin. In this screencast we’re going to show how Haml can simplify your markup and speed up front-end development. As developers we naturally gravitate towards products or languages that help keep our work clean and organized. Haml is just one of those things....

In this installment in the Delicious Clone, we use CanCan to set some permissions on the Bookmarks Controller. Next week, we’ll finish the bookmark creation process and the following, we’ll add styling with SASS.