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Are you new to Ruby and want to get a head start? In this screencast, I discuss some of the most common methods and techniques that have to do with strings, arrays and hashes. This is also excellent for those coming from other languages. Watch this screencast

.. a generic, language-neutral framework for extending Ruby objects with linguistic methods. - Michael Granger, Martin Chase Watch this screencast

In this screencast, I cover how to create an admin section with a separate login, and describe how nested controllers work. Watch this screencast

Blake Mizerany from Heroku shows off the company's cloud platform for Ruby applications. The talk covers Heroku basics, Sinatra, Ruby development, and scaling. Watch this screencast

Create a Ruby on Rails Jukebox Application and implement the "permalink" feature instead of the usage of "ID". Taking advantage of the "Counter Cache" you will be able to automatically keep track of the number of Albums asociated with each Artist. The last part spicy up the application with the usage of the Themes plugin for Rails. Watch this screencast

Handling multiple models in a single form is much easier with the accepts_nested_attributes_for method. See how to use this method to handle nested model fields. Watch this screencast

Uncle Bob walks and talks his way through the Prime Factors Kata. No music, but lots of commentary. Watch this screencast

“Shoes is a cross-platform toolkit for writing graphical apps easily and artfully using Ruby.” Shoes is a friggin sweet framework for making GUI applications in Ruby. There are lots of GUI toolkits out there but none of them are as easy to get up and running with & distribute as... Watch this screencast

Sequel is an awesome Ruby library for working with databases. As opposed to ActiveRecord and DataMapper, which are based on working with model objects, Sequel is meant to be used to directly query a database, without needed to go through an object relational mapper. You can use models and associations... Watch this screencast

Here I show several of my favorite web applications which I found most helpful as a Ruby developer over the past year. Watch this screencast