Latest Screencasts (page 6)

The new pushState function in JavaScript allows us to change the full URL with AJAX. This means the back button, reloading, and bookmark support can be easily added.

Creating new gems is easy with the `bundle gem` command. In this episode I will walk you through how this works.

Gravatar is a service for providing user avatars. See how easy it is to use in Rails in this episode.

Beanstalk is a fast and easy way to queue background tasks. Stalker provides a nice wrapper interface for creating these jobs.

Thor is an alternative to Rake. It has better support for command line arguments and provides a way to add global scripts.

Authentication is incredibly simple to add with just OmniAuth if you don't need username/password or multiple authentications per user.

Many administration pages have search, sorting, and pagination on the index page. See how to add all of this including AJAX.

Mongoid is a polished, high-level Ruby gem for accessing MongoDB. Here I cover installation, adding fields, validations, associations, and keys.

It is important to use attr_accessible for security with mass assignment, but what if you need it to be dynamic based on user permissions? See how in this episode.

In this episode we continue our look at integrating OmniAuth with devise. Here I show how to set up new users with validations.