346 episodes
RailsCasts Ryan Bates
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5.0 • 40 Ratings
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Every other week you will be treated to a new, free RailsCasts episode featuring tips and tricks with Ruby on Rails, the popular web development framework. These screencasts are short and focus on one technique so you can quickly move on to applying it to your own project. The topics are geared toward the intermediate Rails developer, but beginners and experts will get something out of it as well. A Pro option is also available containing more screencasts each week. This is the full resolution version, a lower reoslution for mobile devices is also available.
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#417 Foundation
ZURB's Foundation is a front-end for quickly building applications and prototypes. It is similar to Twitter Bootstrap but uses Sass instead of LESS. Here you will learn the basics of the grid system, navigation, tooltips and more.
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#415 Upgrading to Rails 4
With the release of Rails 4.0.0.rc1 it's time to try it out and report any bugs. Here I walk you through the steps to upgrade a Rails 3.2 application to Rails 4.
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#412 Fast Rails Commands
Rails commands, such as generators, migrations, and tests, have a tendency to be slow because they need to load the Rails app each time. Here I show three tools to make this faster: Zeus, Spring, and Commands.
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#409 Active Model Serializers
The ActiveModel::Serializers gem can help you build JSON APIs through serializer objects. This provides a dedicated place to fully customize the JSON output.
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#406 Public Activity
Learn how to easily add a user activity feed using the public_activity gem. Here I show both the default setup using model callbacks and a manual way to trigger activities.
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#402 Better Errors & RailsPanel
Here we take a look at two tools to aid us in development: Better Errors which makes it easier than ever to debug exceptions, and RailsPanel, a Chrome extension to see Rails requests.
Customer Reviews
Rails Cast is really great
I was trying to solve the check box problem with the HABTM association. This was the first time i was trying and fighting my head around using the normal HTML tags. Your video really helped to use the ruby on rails magic to get things done. Please keep the good work going
Invaluable!
I'm an experienced developer, but new to RoR and these podcasts are an incredible resource. Zero fat and straight to the point, you get the answers that you're looking wrapped around a 15mins or less video. You can't ask for more than that.
Need basic knowledge
It's not a beginner podcast. Ryan looks at improving knowledge and more advanced techniques.
If you have (or can get) a basic knowledge down, then this is great.