Latest Screencasts

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

Mechanize extends the power of Nokogiri allowing you to interact with multiple pages on the site: click links, submit forms, etc. Watch this screencast

Screen scraping is easy with Nokogiri and SelectorGadget. Watch this screencast

iPhone SDK Essential Training presents the tools and skills needed to create applications for this mobile platform. Developer Simon Allardice breaks down the process of becoming an iPhone developer, from getting started with the tools and the language to building user interfaces and working with the unique features of the... Watch this screencast

Gemcutter is a new service for hosting RubyGems, and Jeweler provides an automated way to release versions of a gem. Watch this screencast

An introduction to GitHub, which includes how to create new repositories, set up your account, push and pull, clone and send pull requests. Watch this screencast

In jQuery Essential Training, Microsoft professional Joe Marini presents the power of the jQuery library, an open-source JavaScript project that greatly simplifies the process of adding advanced functionality to web sites. Joe teaches how to use these new features to build pages that work across browsers with the functionality that... Watch this screencast

MySQL is by far the most popular database management system for small- to medium-sized web projects. In MySQL Essential Training, instructor Bill Weinman provides clear, concise instruction in the tools needed to create and maintain a database. Bill explores the different data types MySQL supports, and the functions it provides,... Watch this screencast

Metric Fu is a compilation of several tools to help find areas of code that could be improved. In this episode I show you how to setup this tool on the railscasts.com source code. Watch this screencast

Cron is great for handling recurring tasks, but it is an external dependency with a crazy syntax. In this episode I show you how to use Whenever to create cron jobs with Ruby. Watch this screencast