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Railscasts #168: Feed Parsing
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Railscasts #168: Feed Parsing

Learn two different techniques for parsing an RSS feed using Feedzirra in this episode! read more »

Level: any Jun 30, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Railscasts #167: More on Virtual Attributes
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Railscasts #167: More on Virtual Attr...

Use a virtual attribute to implement a simple tagging feature. In this episode I show you how to assign virtual attributes through a callback instead of a setter method. read more »

Level: any Jun 22, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Railscasts #166: Metric Fu
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Railscasts #166: Metric Fu

Metric Fu is a compilation of several tools to help find areas of code that could be improved. In this episode I show you how to setup this tool on the railscasts.com source code. read more »

Level: any Jun 15, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Railscasts #165: Edit Multiple
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Railscasts #165: Edit Multiple

Use checkboxes to select multiple records and edit them all in one form as shown in this episode. With virtual attributes you can even edit values relatively! read more »

Level: any Jun 08, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Railscasts #164: Cron in Ruby
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Railscasts #164: Cron in Ruby

Cron is great for handling recurring tasks, but it is an external dependency with a crazy syntax. In this episode I show you how to use Whenever to create cron jobs with Ruby. read more »

Level: any Jun 02, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Railscasts #163: Self-Referential Association
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Railscasts #163: Self-Referential Ass...

Creating a social networking site often requires a self-referential association on the User model to define friends/followers. In this episode I show how to do exactly that. read more »

Level: any May 26, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Railscasts #162: Tree Based Navigation
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Railscasts #162: Tree Based Navigation

The acts_as_tree plugin provides many methods for handling a tree based association. In this episode I show how to build a navigation system with tabs, subpages, and breadcrumbs. read more »

Level: any May 18, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Railscasts #161: Three Profiling Tools
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Railscasts #161: Three Profiling Tools

Ever want to know what Rails is doing under the hood during a request? In this episode I show three different profiling tools: New Relic RPM, FiveRuns TuneUp, and Rack::Bug. read more »

Level: any May 11, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Railscasts #160: Authlogic
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Railscasts #160: Authlogic

Authentication can get very complex. In this episode I show how Authlogic can handle this complexity while you stay in control of how it is presented to the user. read more »

Level: any May 05, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Railscasts #159: More on Cucumber
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Railscasts #159: More on Cucumber

There is a lot more to Cucumber than I showed in an earlier episode. See how to refactor complex scenarios in this episode. read more »

Level: any Apr 28, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk