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Creating a Simple Plugin
Learn how to create a simple plugin using Ruby on Rails. This video will teach you how to turn a view helper into it’s own plugin, and extend the ActionView::Base. Download 13 MB Download (iphone...
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Introduction to Outside-in Development with Cucumber
This is a basic introduction to integration testing with cucumber. In it, I describe how to use cucumber and rspec to implement a feature in a web application, emphasizing the importance of writing...
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Getting started with GitHub
An introduction to GitHub, which includes how to create new repositories, set up your account, push and pull, clone and send pull requests. Download 85.4 MB Download (iphone & ipod) 30.4 MB
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Creating a Twitter Clone in Rails – Part 1
In this series, I attempt to recreate a twitter style application called ‘Flitter’. In this installment, I show you how to create an authenticated system easily using existing tools. I also show how...
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Create HD Video for Vimeo with iShowU HD
Quick demonstration on how to create a HD Video that looks sharp on Vimeo.com. I just go over the settings required for creating and exporting the video. Download 18 MB Download (iphone & ipod)...
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Ruby Essentials – Blocks
This is a screen-cast explaining how to use blocks in ruby. Download 99.9 MB Download (iphone & ipod) 24.5 MB
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Getting Connected to Twitter with OAuth
In this screencast, I show you how to use the Twitter gem to connect to Twitter, and we clarify some of the difficulties that comes with learning OAuth. Download 67 MB Download (iphone & ipod)...
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Basic Ruby on Rails Routing
Ruby on Rails gives you some simple but powerful tools for mapping URL’s and HTTP Verbs to your Controllers and Views. Here is a simple walkthrough of 4 of these ‘Routes’: default routes, regular...
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Storing Encrypted Data Securely using Active Record
Learn how to save data such as bank information, social security number, or other sensitive information in your Rails application securely by encrypting the data. By using spikex’s gem Strongbox, you...
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Rails Shell Application in 10 easy steps
In this screencast you will see how to make a rails application capable of parse and execute shell commands using the ruby function %x The screencast start with basic shell commands, creation of a...
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Creating a Twitter Clone in Rails – Part 2
Now that we have a backbone to our ‘Flitter’ application, we learn how to create the front end and tie it all together. In this screencast, I cover a lot of CSS and getting your site to look good. I...
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Creating a Twitter Clone in Rails – Part 3
In this screencast, we continue our challenge of creating a Twitter clone called ‘Flitter’ using Ruby on Rails. We learn how to use jQuery to create a countdown for the text area box. We also set up...
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Easy Rails Runner Application
Have you ever wanted to run a script or command from the command line and insert data into your rails application?, watch this this screencast and you will see the basics of how to interact with your...
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Styleize your Rails App with Themes
Don’t want to take the time to create a layout for your new Ruby on Rails application? Don’t worry. Use the Themes plugin! In this screencast, I show you how to easily add a layout with built-in menus...
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Creating a Twitter Clone in Rails – Part 4
We’re almost done! The remaining screencasts are already recorded, but not edited yet. To speed things up, I split it up into 3 or 4 screencasts. This one shows how to make the site look and feel like...
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Creating a Twitter Clone in Rails – Part 5
The saga continues. Here we learn how to add the friends list to your application and we use AJAX to add/remove friends. Download 251.4 Download (iphone & ipod) 111.4
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Monitor Twitter with Ruby and Growl
As I run the final stretch to see if I can get a RubyConf ticket, I decided to create a little tool to help me out. If you visit http://search.twitter.com, you will see that they have a search page...
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Creating a Twitter Clone in Rails – Part 6
In this concluding episode, we go over how to add search functionality to our Flitter application, and add a ‘follow / unfollow’ button which uses AJAX. This is the last of the 6-part series on how to...
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Introduction to MongoDB – Part I
In this screencast, you will see the basic CRUD operation using MongoDB shell. This is the first installment of a series on MongoDB. Download 36 MB Download (iphone & ipod) 17 MB
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Introduction to MongoDB – Part II
This is the second part of the series on MongoDB. In this screencast, we create a small Sinatra app called YASI that accesses the data using MongoDB. Get the code at...
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