Latest Screencasts (page 2)

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

Keep JavaScript out of your HTML content with unobtrusive JavaScript. Here I show how Rails 3 works with this best practice.

It is easy to be vulnerable to cross site scripting attacks in earlier versions of Rails, but Rails 3 solves this by automatically escaping unsafe input.

Change the look and behavior of a Rails app on mobile devices. Also use jQTouch to build a native-looking interface.

Use checkboxes to edit multiple records in one form, where each one has an individual set of form fields.

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

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.

Learn how to set up a one-to-many or many-to-many association which is entirely embedded into a single column through a string or bitmask.

Learn about some of the more advanced functionality of Formtastic including handling many-to-many associations, required fields, and styling.

Formtastic is a concise way to generate form views. In this episode (part 1 of 2) I show how to generate both a simple form and a more complex one which is customized with options.