RailsCasts

Ryan Bates
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RailsCasts

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.

  1. 06/16/2013 · VIDEO

    #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.

    11 min

  2. 05/06/2013 · VIDEO

    #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.

    13 min

  3. 04/04/2013 · VIDEO

    #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.

    8 min

  4. 03/09/2013 · VIDEO

    #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.

    11 min

  5. 02/13/2013 · VIDEO

    #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.

    11 min

  6. 01/25/2013 · VIDEO

    #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.

    8 min

  7. 01/04/2013 · VIDEO

    #400 What's New in Rails 4

    Rails 4.0 is still unfinished, but it is shaping up to become a great release. Here I show how to setup a new Rails 4.0 (edge) application and walk through many of its new features.

    20 min

  8. 12/08/2012 · VIDEO

    #396 Importing CSV and Excel

    Allow users to import records into the database by uploading a CSV or Excel document. Here I show how to use Roo to parse these files and present a solution for validations.

    10 min
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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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  • Creator
    Ryan Bates
  • Years Active
    2007 - 2013
  • Episodes
    346
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    RailsCasts

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