Latest Screencasts (page 12)

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

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

Add and remove nested model fields dynamically through JavaScript using either Prototype or jQuery.

In Part 2 of our tutorial, we’ll create some enemies for our player to fight. We’ll set up collision detection, use timers to make a pretty fading effect, and set up a custom manager to coordinate enemy movements and shooting. Be sure to visit jemini.org for help on starting your own game! Jemini Tutorial (Part 2 of 2)

Jemini is a Ruby-based framework for game development. In this screencast, we’ll create a shooter game from scratch. Part 1 shows creating a project, setting up a game state, loading animations, music and sound effects, and setting up keyboard input and event handlers. (Not bad for 22 minutes, right?) Jemini Tutorial (Part 1 of 2)

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.

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

“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...

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...

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