Latest Screencasts (page 9)

The named_scope method in Rails 2.1 makes performing finds on models very elegant and convenient. See how in this episode.

Rails 2.1 Release Candidate 1 was just released! In this episode I will show you how to install it into your Rails project.

Usually a select menu is used for setting a belongs_to association, but in this episode I will show you how to use a text field with auto completion.

If you have complex view logic, this can easily lead to helper methods which call each other. See how to refactor this out into another object in this episode. This is also known as the presenter pattern.

You can use profiling to determine where the performance bottlenecks are in specific Rails actions. Watch this episode for details.

ActiveResource allows you to easily communicate between multiple Rails applications. See how in this episode.

Sometimes you only want to cache a section of a page instead of the entire page. Fragment caching is the answer as shown in this episode.

See how to dynamically change a select menu based on another select menu using Javascript. In this episode everything is kept client side which leads to a more responsive user interface.

Application configuration shouldn't be spread throughout your code base. Instead a much better place to put it is an external YAML file. See how to do that in this episode.

Includes minor updates for Rails 2! If you purchased the previous version, you can re-download it by logging in to your account. Ruby on Rails has received a lot of press in the past few years. This 76 minute screencast teaches you the basics of Rails. If you’ve done PHP,...