Latest Screencasts (page 4)

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

In AJAX Essential Training, instructor Dori Smith shows experienced web developers how to utilize AJAX to best create dynamic pages. The course covers selecting the best tools for the job (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML), understanding all aspects of HTTP from requests to responses, and creating dynamic forms and maps from...

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.

Brian Chapados talks about using Ruby and Amazon's Simple Que Service web service to build backdoors into systems.

Dominic Damian talks about his experiences building Tuneshelf, a web application that allows music fans to keep track of their favorite music albums.

Roger Whitney explores Seaside, the web application framework based on Smalltalk.

by Geoffrey Grosenbach If you’re a beginning Rails developer, this is the book for you! Seventeen chapters show how applications are often written (the wrong way). Then, we show you how it should be done correctly. It’s more than just a checklist, it’s a tour of well-built applications that will...

Accessibility on the web has been an issue for over a decade, and it remains a crucial--but often overlooked--element of web design. Instructor Zoe Gillenwater explains the concept of accessibility as it applies to the web, and describes how it affects the audience. She also covers how to set up...

In this episode, Toby Sterrett gives us an update on his soon-to-be-released project StaffTool. StaffTool is a web-based church management application build with Ruby on Rails.

Chris Abad talks a little bit about providing web services to your Rails application using some of the new REST features found in Edge Rails. At the end, he also throws in a bonus tip on using Rick Olson's authentication plugin restful_authentication to add authentication to your REST API. Here are the slides