Latest Screencasts (page 6)

If you have a form with multiple buttons, you can detect which button was clicked by checking the passed parameters. Learn how in this episode.

A search form is quite different than other forms, this is because it does not deal with model's attributes. See a good way to add a simple search form in this episode.

When you add a custom route, make it a named route so you have url helper methods to easily link to that new route. See episode for details.

Learn how to use the trusty strftime method to format a time, and see how Rails allows you to save this format for later use.

If you are like me, you avoid creating page titles because it is kind of a pain. But in this episode I will show you a clean way to add titles to your pages.

Learn how to use the very useful group_by method to group an array by anything you want! In this episode I group an array of tasks by month then sort it properly.

Have you ever wanted to visually line up items in rows and columns? The in_groups_of method makes this a cinch. Just watch out for the gotcha.

Another common security issue is cross site scripting. In this episode you will see why it is so important to escape any HTML a user may submit.

Displaying flash messages in the layout can be a pain at times. In this episode you will learn an easy way to display any kind of flash message by looping through the hash.

It is often asked: how do I create a list of checkboxes for managing a HABTM association? Ask no more because this episode will show you how to do exactly that.