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If you have complex view logic, this can easily lead to helper methods which call each other. See how to refactor this out into another object in this episode. This is also known as the presenter pattern.

Here's five quick tips to use in views. Be sure to catch the end of the episode where I reveal an exciting contest!

How do you handle partials which have differences depending on the action which is rendering them? Here's three suggestions for this problem.

Sometimes you only want to cache a section of a page instead of the entire page. Fragment caching is the answer as shown in this episode.

See how to dynamically change a select menu based on another select menu using Javascript. In this episode everything is kept client side which leads to a more responsive user interface.

See how to easily generate and link to an RSS feed using new features in Rails 2.0. Watch this episode or details.

Patrick Crowley gets you up to speed on using Haml and Sass. Haml is a drop in replacement for ERB that turns your views into beautiful code poetry. Sass does the same for CSS. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Rails 2.0 is almost here. One of the many features in this release is the smarter helper methods which can make your views much cleaner. Learn all about it in this Episode.

If the user has JavaScript disabled, the "Destroy" link might not work properly. In this episode I will explore a number of ways to work around this issue.

In this third and final episode on complex forms I will show you how to edit a project and multiple tasks all in one form. This includes removing and adding tasks dynamically as well. See the show notes for updated code.