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Nathan Colgate Clark gives a general overview of his Amazon S3 upload plugin (past, present, and future) and shares his thoughts on how it managed to stand out on GitHub. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Megan O'Rorke introduces the general concept and goal of usability, and shares some quick and cheap usability resources for Ruby developers. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Metric Fu, Metrical, SimpleCov, Rails Best Practices, and more are covered in this episode on metrics.

This is a quick demonstration of how to switch your Rails 3 application to HAML from ERB.

MetaWhere provides a way to do complex find conditions without SQL in Active Record. MetaSearch makes it easy to create search forms with many find options.

Password authentication is not too complicated to make from scratch, it will also help to get a better understanding of how it works.

Because I’m going to be testing in cucumber sections of the site that require a user to be logged in, I decided to get it out of the way. So, in this video, I write a cucumber feature to test login and round it off with a few tests on the devise generated user model [...]

Rails 3 comes with instrument support through the ActiveSupport::Notifications class. Call "subscribe" to listen to notifications, and "instrument" to send them.

Learn how to make a site usable offline with HTML 5 localStorage. This last part of the series covers jquery-tmpl and jquery-offline.

Learn how to make a site usable offline through an HTML 5 cache manifest. This first part of the series covers rack-offline and problems you may run into.