Latest Screencasts (page 30)

Content and filming by Dr. Nic Williams, voiceover by Geoffrey Grosenbach. Dr. Nic Williams has been hard at work on an updated TextMate bundle for Rails 2.0. This 66 minute screencast shows many of the new features of the Rails 2 TextMate bundle. It finishes by showing you how to...

The scoped method allows you to generate named scopes on the fly. In this episode I show how to use anonymous scopes to improve the conditional logic which was used in the previous episode on advanced search form.

The first REST screencast was the top-selling screencast at PeepCode for over a year. We’ve started from scratch and built this one from the ground up for Rails 2 (a few Rails 2.1 features are used, too!). RESTful routes have been a big part of Rails since version 1.2, but...

by Aaron Bedra of Relevance No one wants to wake up to an application that has been hacked. This 47-page PDF talks about common vulnerabilities found in Rails applications and how to solve them. After touching on common model and view vulnerabilities, Aaron takes you through a session with the...

RJS Templates are one of the most exciting parts of Rails 1.1. You can manipulate pages and use Ajax to its full extent without knowing Javascript! This 50 minute Quicktime video tutorial shows you how to use the basic RJS methods from scratch. You’ll be adding to your skills and...

If you need to create an advanced search with a lot of fields, it may not be ideal to use a GET request as I showed in episode 37. In this episode I will show you how to handle this by creating a Search resource.

In Rails 2.1 we now have the ability to set gem dependencies. Now it's easier than ever to specify which ruby gems our rails app relies on.

Rails 2.1 keeps track of the changes you make to a model's attributes. It also allows you to see what the previous value was. But watch out for the gotcha! See this episode for details.

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

Previously called MMS2R Web applications become much more useful when powered by the oldest communication technology on the Internet: email. This 60 page PDF shows how to use the MMS2R RubyGem to receive and parse email from both desktop clients and mobile devices. You’ll learn about: