Latest Screencasts (page 3)

Generators in Rails 3 have been completely rewritten to be more modular. This allows you to customize any generator to fit your specific preferences.

Dan Simpson and Nick Zadrozny give an overview of cutting-edge, real-time programming for the web; and demonstrate an interactive, web-based sequencer.

Learn some advanced techniques regarding named scopes and get an introduction to Arel in this episode.

If you work with ruby you will know that the interactive ruby shell, or ‘IRB’ for short, is a useful sketchpad for coding. But the command line interface of IRB can feel quite limiting in comparison with the power of your text editor. In this episode, I’m going to demonstrate how you can get the best of both worlds, by loading Vim from inside IRB.

Devise is a full-featured authentication solution which handles all of the controller logic and form views for you. Learn how to set it up in this episode.

After being away for a couple weeks due to conferences and sickness, we present another entry in our “Same Kata, Different Languages” series: the String Calculator in Groovy by Itay Maman. This will most likely be the last of the String Calculator katas for a while, as we’ve been doing them for a long time [...]

Change the look and behavior of a Rails app on mobile devices. Also use jQTouch to build a native-looking interface.

Are you new to Grails? Grails is an excellent alternative to Ruby on Rails, which uses Groovy / Java. In this screencast, learn how to create a simple CRUD system with Grails.

Add and remove nested model fields dynamically through JavaScript using either Prototype or jQuery.

Jemini is a Ruby-based framework for game development. In this screencast, we’ll create a shooter game from scratch. Part 1 shows creating a project, setting up a game state, loading animations, music and sound effects, and setting up keyboard input and event handlers. (Not bad for 22 minutes, right?) Jemini Tutorial (Part 1 of 2)