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NetBeansTV: Jmaki on Rails for Dummies
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NetBeansTV: Jmaki on Rails for Dummies

This screencast by Arun Gupta shows how a jMaki-wrapped Yahoo DataTable widget can be used to pull data from MySQL database using ActiveRecord in a Rails application. This is a screencast of the Jm... read more »

Level: novice Oct 29, 2008 Votes: 1 Roman Dmytrenko

 
EnvyCasts: Advanced ActiveRecord
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EnvyCasts: Advanced ActiveRecord

In this first EnvyCast we take a look at several advanced features of ActiveRecord, including: Loading Large Data Sets Foreign Keys Using and Abusing Include Counter Caching Properly Polymorphic As... read more »

Level: any Oct 30, 2008 Votes: 1 Roman Dmytrenko

 
sd.rb Episode 052: Shadow
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sd.rb Episode 052: Shadow

Jordan Fowler reveals his new Shadow plugin that tracks attribute and association changes to ActiveRecord objects, making it easy to create activity feeds for your application. read more »

Level: any Oct 13, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Lone Star Ruby Conf 2008: Ruby Anvil: The Desktop Application Framework
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Lone Star Ruby Conf 2008: Ruby Anvil:...

Ruby Anvil promises to be the rails/merb equivalent framework for Ruby. By borrowing the ideas and knowledge accumulated from both frameworks, we can utilize Ruby to create yet another framework fo... read more »

Level: any Sep 17, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Lone Star Ruby Conf 2008: Building and Managing a Ruby Infrastructure
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Lone Star Ruby Conf 2008: Building an...

What do you do when your entire business is run on a ruby infrastructure. You have a set of command line applications for data collection, another suite of daemons and command line processes for ma... read more »

Level: advanced Sep 17, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Everyday Active Record Episode 5: Optimizing Queries
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Everyday Active Record Episode 5: Opt...

Rails makes it easy to fetch records from the database without even writing SQL, but it’s equally easy to wind up with slow database queries. In this episode, we’ll use advanced find op... read more »

Level: advanced Sep 07, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Everyday Active Record Episode 4: Using Callbacks
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Everyday Active Record Episode 4: Usi...

Callbacks are a way for your application to hook into the lifecycle of Active Record models. In this episode, we’ll use callbacks to solve two database performance problems. We’ll cache... read more »

Level: novice Jul 17, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
MountainWest RubyConf 2008: Faster, Better ORM with DataMapper
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MountainWest RubyConf 2008: Faster, B...

The talk will discuss integrating DataMapper into Ruby web frameworks, and using DataMapper models in controllers or as resources in Rails or Merb. It will also discuss using ActiveRecord and DataM... read more »

Level: advanced Jul 14, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Everyday Active Record Episode 3: Validating Models
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Everyday Active Record Episode 3: Val...

Validations are the key to preserving data integrity in Rails. We’ll use both built-in and custom validations to make sure movie reviews are submitted with valid data. You’ll learn how ... read more »

Level: novice Jul 10, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Everyday Active Record Episode 2: Finding and Scoping Models
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Everyday Active Record Episode 2: Fin...

We’ll pick up where we left off by fetching models using the find method with several options, including the new Rails 2.1 named_scope method. You’ll learn how to: perform finds on mode... read more »

Level: novice Jul 10, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk