Latest Screencasts (page 2)

Here I show off three new features in Rails 3.1 that will help with authentication: easier HTTP Basic, SecurePassword in the database, and forcing SSL.

In Rails 3.1 the controller inheritance also applies to the view layer. Here I show how to add an application template which is shared by all views, and a lookup path for overriding templates based on the subdomain.

Polymorphic associations are very simple, as are many-to-many associations. When you blend the two, it’s not nearly as simple. Since there isn’t a working build-in mechanism for many-to-many polymorphic associations. Here’s a quick demo of what happens if you try to set up a traditional has_many :through association with a polymorphic association. I also show [...]

Sass extends CSS with variables, nesting, mixins and more. Here I show how to convert plain CSS to SCSS in a Rails 3.1 app.

I had several requests in UserVoice to provide a Many to Many tutorial in Rails. This is a demonstration of how to put together a “has and belongs to many” association and a “has many through” association. This is somewhat basic to Ruby on Rails, but important if you need to associate different models. Download [...]

CoffeeScript allows you to write JavaScript in a concise, elegant fashion. Here I convert JavaScript code to CoffeeScript in a Rails 3.1 app.

HTTP Streaming allows the browser to start processing the HTML response while the Rails app is still processing the rest of the request.

This is the first episode in a series covering Rails 3.1. Here I show how to install the beta and show some of the new features.

  Ruby on Rails 3.1 is moving to use Sprockets to compile CoffeeScript into JavaScript and include JQuery in it’s JavaScript by default. This is a quick demo of how it all hangs together to manage your JavaScript in Rails 3.1.

Guard watches files and runs a command after a file is modified. This allows you to automatically run tests in the background, restart your development server, reload the browser, and more.