Latest Screencasts (page 10)

Devise is a full-featured authentication solution which handles all of the controller logic and form views for you. Learn how to set it up in this episode.

Ruby on Rails allows you to nest models within a form. Ryan Bates of Railscasts demonstrated how to set up these forms with JavaScript using the Prototype framework, which ships with Rails. In this episode, Charles Max Wood gives a brief overview of how Ryan’s code works, and then refactors the JavaScript to use JQuery. [...]

Blocks in ERB templates are handled differently in Rails 3.0 Beta 2. Learn all about it in this episode.

In this our first Rails Dispatch content push, we’ve got two great pieces of content for you: Rails 3 introduces a series of brand new features that will make your Rails applications better and your experience more pleasant. In today’s post, I’m going to cover some of the most important...

Here I talk about three popular choices for syntax highlighting in Rails: CodeRay, Ultraviolet and Pygments.

There's a few useful shorthand ways to create certain objects in Ruby, ... - Caius

RVM is a program that allows you to install and manage multiple versions of Ruby and Gems. This setup is ideal for testing your application or gem (library) against multiple versions of Ruby. Also, if you’re looking into Rails 3 on Ruby 1.9 this is a great way to try it out. Are you thinking [...]

Action Mailer has been rewritten for Rails 3 providing a much cleaner API with its use of the Mail gem.

Loading multiple Ruby Gems can result in runtime errors when an incompatible version of a gem dependency is already loaded as a dependency of another gem. Gem bundler can also pre-load and cache gems for faster loading. Having two gems that require different versions of the same dependency can sometimes cause runtime errors. Yehuda Katz [...]

The Cucumber behavior-driven development framework is appreciated by developers from many languages. It makes it easy to write plain-text stories that run executable Ruby code against your application. In this hour and ten minute screencast, you’ll learn the basics of Cucumber. You’ll learn the syntax, organization, and philosophy of writing...