346 episodes

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 version is for mobile devices which cannot support the full resolution version.

RailsCasts (Mobile‪)‬ Ryan Bates

- Technology
- 4.9 • 58 Ratings

- JUN 16, 2013
- video
#417 Foundation

#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
- MAY 6, 2013
- video
#415 Upgrading to Rails 4

#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.
- 12 min
- APR 4, 2013
- video
#412 Fast Rails Commands

#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
- MAR 9, 2013
- video
#409 Active Model Serializers

#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.
- 10 min
- FEB 13, 2013
- video
#406 Public Activity

#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.
- 10 min
- JAN 25, 2013
- video
#402 Better Errors & RailsPanel

#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