Videos tagged with Rails

Add full text searching using ElasticSearch and Tire. Here I will show the steps involved in adding this search to an existing application. This is the first part in a two part series. Resources: elasticsearch Tire Tire Annotated Source Episode 120: Thinking Sphinx (revised) Episode 278: Searching with Sunspot Episode 307: ElasticSearch Part 2 (pro)

As Rails developers, we frequently use the command line. Here I will show how to switch to Z Shell using Oh My ZSH including how to make your own theme and plugins. Resources: Oh My ZSH Oh My ZSH Themes Prompt Options ZSH: The last shell you'll ever need! ZSH-LOVERS

Learning Ruby on Rails can be overwhelming, especially if you are new to programming. Here I will take you on a tour through various resources to help get started with Rails. Resources: Ruby on Rails Rails Installer for Windows Homebrew for Mac RVM rbenv Ruby on Rails Version Dates

HTML email can be difficult to code because any CSS should be made inline. Here I present a few tools for doing this including the premailer-rails3 and roadie gems. Resources: 20 Email Design Best Practices and Resources Automatic CSS Inliner Tool Premailer Rails 3 Roadie

If you are tired of model ids in the URL, overriding to_param can only get you so far. The friendly_id plugin can help by making it easy to generate a URL slug and maintain a history. Resources: FriendlyId FriendlyId Documentation

Private Pub makes it easier than ever to publish and subscribe to real-time events in a Rails app. You can use publish_to with a block of JavaScript or supply a hash for use with JSON. Resources: Private Pub Faye Episode 260: Messaging with Faye

Rails 3.2 sports many new features including automatic explain queries, tagged logging, key-value store in Active Record, improved migration generator and more. Learn all about these new features in this episode. Resources: Rails 3.2.0 Rails 3.2.0 CHANGELOG Compilation

Jbuilder provides a DSL for generating JSON. It includes a template engine which allows you to create complex responses with helpers and conditions. Resources: Jbuilder

RABL - Ruby API Builder Language - provides a DSL for generating JSON or XML responses in a Ruby application. Learn how to share and configure complex JSON data in this episode. Resources: RABL Episode 320: JBuilder

There are a variety of ways to pass variables from a Rails application to JavaScript. Here I show three techniques: a script tag, a data attribute, and the Gon gem. Resources: Gon Episode 322: RABL Episode 320: Jbuilder